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Boys & Girls Clubs Ready for New Role as Virtual Learning Hubs for Students

August 24, 2020

The Zimmerman Club has been a ghost town since April 1 when the site just north of downtown Fresno and other Boys and Girls Clubs of Fresno County closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Diane Carbray hopes that's about to change. CEO/President Diane Carb...

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Terry Cox Won’t Seek Another Term on Central Unified Board

David Taub

August 10, 2020

The biggest development in Fresno-area school board races perhaps is who won't be on the November ballot. Longtime Central Unified trustee Terry Cox tells GV Wire℠ that she won't run for a sixth term. ...

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Nelson Talks About Leading State’s 3rd-Largest School District and His Ukulele

Nancy Price

August 1, 2020

Fresno Unified superintendent Bob Nelson says his strategies for weathering the COVID-19 pandemic, schools closures, and critics include having thick skin, kindness, and playing the ukulele. Nancy Price ...

Superintendent: New Boundaries, Year-Round Schools Possible if Clovis Unified Bond Measure Fails

Nancy Price

July 16, 2020

Clovis Unified School District trustees voted Wednesday to put a $335 million bond measure on the November ballot, even as trustees and the district's superintendent acknowledged that asking for voters to approve a tax measure during a pandemic is less than id...

As COVID Shutdowns Expand, Will Area Schools Open Next Month?

Nancy Price

July 13, 2020

Local school officials were huddling Monday to talk about how the latest COVID-19 closures ordered Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom might impact back-to-school plans. Central Unified spokeswoman Sonja Dosti said ...

Got (Chocolate) Milk? For Fresno Unified Students, It’ll Soon Be Harder to Find

Nancy Price

June 26, 2020

Chocolate milk won't be an option for Fresno Unified students in their summer meals starting Wednesday. That's when the district will stop including it with the breakfast-and-lunch meal handouts at area schools...

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Winning Bid For PLA-Build of Herrera Elementary Is $3M Under Estimate

Nancy Price

June 12, 2020

Fresno Unified trustees gave the green light this week to a $37.6 million construction bid for the new Juan Felipe Herrera Elementary School in southeast Fresno. Nancy Price School Zone Trustee Elizabeth Jonasson Rosas made a point of asking how...

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Trustees Keep Fresno Cops on Campus but End ShotSpotter

Nancy Price

June 11, 2020

The Fresno Unified School District on Wednesday adopted a $1.5 billion budget for the 2020-21 school year that keeps Fresno police and Fresno County deputies on campus but deletes funding for the city's ShotSpo...

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Should Police Officers Still Be Assigned to FUSD Campuses?

Nancy Price

June 5, 2020

The debate over whether police officers and sheriff's deputies should be assigned to Fresno Unified school campuses heated up Thursday evening during a special board meeting on the proposed 2020-21 budget for C...

FUSD Superintendent: ‘a Time to Acknowledge That Pain and Hurt’

Nancy Price

June 2, 2020

Superintendent Bob Nelson Fresno Unified Superintendent Bob Nelson said Tuesday that he joins with the rest of the community in mourning the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, a death that has sparked protests both peaceful and viole...

Youth Suicide Attempts Up in Fresno County in Recent Days, Health Expert Warns.

Vocal City Hall Rally: ‘We Are Telling You We Are Opening October 1st’

State Schools Chief Announces New Anti-Hate Education Initiative

On 75th Anniversary of UN, Its Chief Appeals for Peace

Toxic Algae Warnings Issued for 2 Valley Waterways Ahead of Hot Weekend

Youth Suicide Attempts Up in Fresno County in Recent Days, Health Expert Warns.

Fresno Asks Governor to Let Restaurants Open Indoors

Board of Barbering & Cosmetology President Publicly Blasts Newsom and CDPH for Keeping Her in the ‘Dark’

Raiders Ready for Big Opening Act on Las Vegas Strip

Jim Carrey to Play Joe Biden on Upcoming Season of “Saturday Night Live”

Volunteers Needed to Walk Dogs and Take Care of Cats Evacuated From the Creek Fire

Bryson DeChambeau Blasts Way to U.S. Open Title

Walters: Appeals Court Makes Tax Increases Easier

Is Mike Pompeo Preparing an October Surprise?

Walters: Most ‘Job Killer’ Bills Bite the Dust Again

Don’t Believe Prop. 15 Backers. It’s a Big Tax Hike for Farmers.

Eid al-Fitr Marks End of Ramadan, but COVID-19 Curtails Big Events

LIVE: Daily Briefing from Gov. Gavin Newsom

COVID-19 Brings a New Kind of Ramadan for Muslim Community

Democrats Nominate Biden for Epic Challenge to Oust Trump

Post Office Won’t Forward Ballots. Will Thousands Displaced by Creek Fire Still be Able to Vote?

Trump and Biden Hit Unlikely Battleground State of Minnesota

Trump Ad Asks People to Support the Troops. But It Uses a Picture of Russian Jets.

Boys & Girls Clubs Ready for New Role as Virtual Learning Hubs for Students

Terry Cox Won’t Seek Another Term on Central Unified Board

Nelson Talks About Leading State’s 3rd-Largest School District and His Ukulele

Superintendent: New Boundaries, Year-Round Schools Possible if Clovis Unified Bond Measure Fails

As COVID Shutdowns Expand, Will Area Schools Open Next Month?

Got (Chocolate) Milk? For Fresno Unified Students, It’ll Soon Be Harder to Find

Winning Bid For PLA-Build of Herrera Elementary Is $3M Under Estimate

Trustees Keep Fresno Cops on Campus but End ShotSpotter

Should Police Officers Still Be Assigned to FUSD Campuses?

FUSD Superintendent: ‘a Time to Acknowledge That Pain and Hurt’

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