Fresno Unified's youngest students will set foot on campus on Tuesday for the first time in more than a year as the district returns to in-person instruction halted by the pandemic. For transitional kindergartners and some kindergartners, Tuesday will be their very first time in a classroom. In the weeks...
Fresno Parents Go Big in Demand for 5 Day Return to School
Two billboards in northwest Fresno are urging the Fresno Unified School Board and Fresno Teachers Association to reopen schools to students for five days a week instead of the current plan of two days of in-person learning and three days of distance learning. The changeable message signs at the northeast...
Fresno Parent ‘Speechless’ After Son Assigned to ‘*Covid-A’ School Group
Danielle Loucks was looking at the message from her son's middle school about his two-day in-person class schedule starting in April when the phrase "*Covid - A" jumped out at her. The message from Fresno Unified's Computech Middle School talked about the groupings, also known as cohorts, that students would...
Fresno Trustees Heading Back to School for Board Meetings
Fresno Unified trustees, who have been holding their public meetings electronically since the start of the coronavirus pandemic a year ago, will meet on April 7 at Roosevelt High School. The meeting will be the first opportunity for community members to directly address board members in over a year. Public...
Newly Appointed Deputy at FUSD Said to Be Nation’s Highest-Ranking Hmong K-12 Educator
Longtime Fresno Unified administrator Mao Misty Her was named Wednesday as the district's new deputy superintendent and second-in-command to Superintendent Bob Nelson. Fresno Unified said the appointment makes Her the highest-ranking Hmong K-12 educator in the nation. Her, whose family came as refugees to the U.S. and moved to Fresno...
Parents Hire Attorney to Seek Records of Fresno School Reopening Discussions
A group of parents has hired a local attorney to review public record discussions between the Fresno Unified School Board, Superintendent Bob Nelson, and teachers union head Manuel Bonilla over the reopening of schools and other matters. A letter addressed to "Fresno Unified School District" from the Fresno law firm...
Slatic Calls Fellow Trustees ‘Radical Fringe’ on ‘Fox & Friends First’ Over Cops on Campus
Fresno Unified Trustee Terry Slatic called his fellow School Board trustees part of the "radical fringe" in the Fresno community that opposes having uniformed, armed officers on secondary school campuses during a national TV network interview. Slatic's comments came during an early Tuesday morning interview on "Fox & Friends First"...
Parents, Community Leaders Lobby to Keep Pressure on FUSD at Open Schools Rally
Fresno Unified parents speaking in English and Spanish joined with Fresno city councilmembers, a former Fresno mayor, a School Board member, and other community leaders at a rally Saturday in downtown Fresno in calling for the school district to accelerate the reopening of schools for all students. The rally, organized...
Fresno Students Want Cops on Their Campus, New Report Says
Fresno Unified students say "overwhelmingly" that they would feel unsafe if police officers are removed from campuses, which is under consideration by the district's board. The students' comments came in response to questions raised in focus groups in January and February that were led by Student Voice Initiative groups, representing...
First Day in School for More Fresno Kids Will Be April 6. So Long as County Is in Red Tier.
Fresno Unified School District officials announced Tuesday that the district will resume in-person instruction for many elementary students on April 6, immediately following spring break, but Fresno County will need to be in the red tier on the state's coronavirus reopening dashboard for the plan to move forward. The return...