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

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. And starting in August, chocolate milk will o...

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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 E...

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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 California's third-largest school district. Sixt...

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...

Surrounded by Fresno Police in Case of Mistaken Identity, ‘The Kid is Scared to Death’

Nancy Price

June 1, 2020

Fresno Unified board president Keshia Thomas Fresno Unified board president Keshia Thomas says she well understands the anger boiling over in violent protests across the nation in reaction to the death of G...

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Here’s One Sport That COVID-19 Couldn’t Stifle

Nancy Price

May 29, 2020

Most high school sports came to a screeching halt in mid-March with the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic — cutting short the state basketball playoffs and pre-empting spring sports — but some students kept on playing. Nancy Price School Zone ...

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High School Football in January? FUSD Superintendent Says It’s an Option

Nancy Price

May 20, 2020

Fresno Unified Superintendent Bob Nelson knows how important high school sports are to students, their families, and the community, and how disappointing it will be if COVID-19 forces districts to cancel yet an...

FUSD Plans to Roll Out Buses as Wi-Fi Hot Spots

Nancy Price

May 15, 2020

Fresno Unified school buses haven't transported kids since schools closed on March 13 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but some of them are going back on the street with a new purpose sometime soon. The distric...

Valley Schools, Fresno State Face Big Cuts Under Budget Revision

Nancy Price

May 14, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced massive cuts to California's education budget due to revenue losses in the economic recession sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic. The May Revision of the 2020-21 proposed $203 billion budget includes $99.7 billion for K...

Falwell Apologizes for Tweet That Included Racist Photo

US Bets $500M on Untested Company to Inject COVID-19 Vaccine

Trump Wears Mask in Public for First Time During Pandemic

Amazon’s Homeless Shelter Faces Seattle Crisis, Criticism

Over 300 Free COVID-19 Tests Done at NW Fresno Site

Five Myths About COVID-19 Politicians Insist Are True

Props to You, Californians: A Preview of What’s on Your November Ballot

Temperance Flat Dam Put on the Shelf Indefinitely

Bob Watson, All-Star Slugger and Executive, Dies at 74

Don’t Risk Your Health by Attending Harvard Block Sale: Soria

Singer Says Lawsuit Over Lady a Name Is ‘White Privilege’

City Supplies COVID-19 Masks for Saturday’s Harvard Block Sale

After Protests End, What Is Fresno's Path to Racial Equality and Prosperity?

COVID-19 Exposes Why Postal Service Needs to Get Back Into Banking

Opinion: A More Accurate Name Is ‘Selective Black Lives Matter’

Walters: Imperial County, the COVID-19 Epicenter

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

Must Muslims Fast for Ramadan During COVID-19?

Liberal Groups Warn Biden Could Lose Over Policing Policies

Ex-Bush Officials Launch Super PAC Backing Biden Over Trump

Trump’s Superpower Turns to Kryptonite

With Student Gathering, Trump Gets a More Boisterous Crowd

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’

Surrounded by Fresno Police in Case of Mistaken Identity, ‘The Kid is Scared to Death’

Here’s One Sport That COVID-19 Couldn’t Stifle

High School Football in January? FUSD Superintendent Says It’s an Option

FUSD Plans to Roll Out Buses as Wi-Fi Hot Spots

Valley Schools, Fresno State Face Big Cuts Under Budget Revision

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