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These Valley Elementaries Are Among California's Best

Nineteen elementary schools from Fresno, Kings, Madera, and Tulare counties are being honored as 2020 California Distinguished Schools for their outstanding education programs and practices by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond. Listen to this article:   The schools were selected because they are closing achievement gaps among disadvantaged...

Special Report: Nearly Half of Fresno Unified Students Below Grade Level

Fresno Unified School District has released an eye-opening report that paints in stark numbers how poorly students are performing academically and the huge challenges they face in being ready for college and career. Listen to this article:   Only 12.1% of the district's students started the school year at grade...

Fresno Unified Won't Pay State Conference Costs for Trustee Slatic

School board members and school district employees from all over the state will gather this week in San Diego for the annual California School Boards Association's Education Conference and Trade Show. The attendees will include six Fresno Unified trustees, Superintendent Bob Nelson, and several other district staffers. Their expenses are...

These Sunnyside Students All Get College Bids — and Some Go on to Medical School

The Doctors Academy freshmen cluster around tables in a Sunnyside High School science classroom, adding spoonfuls of sugar to a cup of water. Their assignment: Figure out just how much sugar they need to add to make the liquid taste as sweet as 20 ounces of soda pop. Their formulas...

Should Fresno Unified Use PLAs to Build Schools?

The Fresno Unified School Board continues to grapple with whether to use project labor agreements for upcoming school construction projects such as the new southeast elementary school. Indecision about the agreements, which are supported by labor unions but opposed by general contractors and business owners, has pushed the school's opening...

Fresno Unified Opts for $325M Bond Measure To Keep Lid on Tax Rate Hike

After considering bond measures as large as $500 million — and the tax rate hikes that would result — the Fresno Unified School Board voted unanimously Wednesday evening to put a $325 million bond measure on the March ballot. The ballot language for the bond measure says that the property...

Fresno Unified Wrestles With How Big to Make Bond Measure

Faced with lower community support for a bond measure that would hike property taxes, the Fresno Unified School Board appears split on whether to ask voters to greenlight a $500 million bond measure. The board is likely to vote on a bond measure resolution at the Nov. 20 meeting following...

With $700M Wish List, Fresno Unified Mulls $500M Bond Measure

Less than a month remains before the deadline to get a bond measure on the March 3 ballot, but Fresno Unified School District is still waiting for the results of a second community survey to gauge support for bond measures totaling $325 million or $500 million. Both would likely result...

County Tops State Average in English, Math — if Fresno Unified Isn't Counted

Nearly three-fourths of Fresno County students scored above the state average on both English language arts and mathematics standardized tests last year. In fact, the same contingent of Fresno County students tested above the state average in English language arts for the past three years. Listen to this article: But...

Bond Measures Could Raise Megabucks for Schools — and Taxes

Clovis Unified and Central Unified trustees will vote next week on whether to put multimillion-dollar school bond measures on the March 3 ballot, the same ballot that will contain a $15 billion state facilities bond measure for California's K-12 schools and public colleges. Fresno Unified trustees say they also want a...

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