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Fresno County Teacher, Employee, Administrator Are Educators of the Year for 2020

November 23, 2020

A Sanger Unified music teacher is Fresno County's teacher of the year, one of the county's three Educators of the Year for 2020 named Sunday. Nancy Price School Zone The award winners were announced Sunday in a live broadcast on ABC30 that was c...

Fresno Unified Virtual Fundraiser Nets $50K for Student Scholarships

Nancy Price

November 18, 2020

Fresno Unified wasn't able to hold its annual State of the District luncheon that also serves as a major fundraiser for student scholarships because of the coronavirus, but the district's Plan B — a virtual run...

Madera Get COPS Money for Campus Safety, Strengthens Relationships with Police

Nancy Price

October 22, 2020

Madera Unified School District has recently won more than $1 million in federal grants to make schools safer for students. Nancy Price School Zone And forgive Rebecca Malmo, the district's execut...

Fresno State Reports Record Enrollments This Fall Despite Closed Campus

Nancy Price

October 13, 2020

A record 25,300 students enrolled in Fresno State classes in the fall semester, about 5% more than the fall semester of 2019, even though the campus has been closed because of the coronavirus. Nancy Price School Zone Fresno State is bucking a na...

When COVID Put the Kibosh on Clovis, Fresno, Central Fundraisers, They Pivoted

Nancy Price

September 30, 2020

October is the time of year when Fresno-area school districts or their foundations schedule big fundraiser breakfasts, lunches, and dinners at which superintendents deliver "State of the District" speeches. ...

Donated Coats Will Keep 4K Fresno Unified Kids Warm This Winter

Nancy Price

September 11, 2020

Thousands of Fresno Unified School District students will be a little warmer this winter, and they can thank an anonymous donor. Nancy Price School Zone The district plans to hand out the coa...

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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 School Zone Nelson's comments came during a ...

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COVID-19 Puts Kibosh on Central Unified’s In-Person Summer School

Nancy Price

July 24, 2020

Central Unified's attempt to bring students back to the classroom for summer school classes turned out to be short-lived — as in, only a week. Nancy Price School Zone The district had carefully m...

‘Go Back to Your Country’ Post by School Trustee Denounced by Board

Nancy Price

July 17, 2020

Over the objections of two trustees, the Central Unified School Board voted Tuesday for a resolution denouncing the "insensitive" comment former trustee Richard Atkins had posted on Facebook that led to public ...

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Doing This One Thing Helps Community College Students Transfer to a 4-Year University

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Fresno County Teacher, Employee, Administrator Are Educators of the Year for 2020

Fresno Unified Virtual Fundraiser Nets $50K for Student Scholarships

Madera Get COPS Money for Campus Safety, Strengthens Relationships with Police

Fresno State Reports Record Enrollments This Fall Despite Closed Campus

When COVID Put the Kibosh on Clovis, Fresno, Central Fundraisers, They Pivoted

Donated Coats Will Keep 4K Fresno Unified Kids Warm This Winter

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

COVID-19 Puts Kibosh on Central Unified’s In-Person Summer School

‘Go Back to Your Country’ Post by School Trustee Denounced by Board

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