Should taxpayer dollars be spent on improvements for portable classrooms, including adding bathrooms? This was the topic of a discussion at last week's Fresno Unified School Board meeting, when trustees considered spending nearly $1.4 million to install a new portable classroom for transitional kindergarten students, remodel the existing music room...
Potties for Portables? Fresno Schools Spending Proposal Questioned
Should taxpayer dollars be spent on improvements for portable classrooms, including adding bathrooms? This was the topic of a discussion at last week's Fresno Unified School Board meeting, when trustees considered spending nearly $1.4 million to install a new portable classroom for transitional kindergarten students, remodel the existing music room...
Why This High School’s Paint Job Is Controversial
The Fresno Unified School Board took mere seconds to approve next year's budget totaling more than $2 billion at Wednesday night's board meeting. But a proposal to repaint Edison High School, one of the city's three oldest high schools and a mainstay of southwest Fresno, took nearly a half-hour to...
Why This High School’s Paint Job Is Controversial
The Fresno Unified School Board took mere seconds to approve next year's budget totaling more than $2 billion at Wednesday night's board meeting. But a proposal to repaint Edison High School, one of the city's three oldest high schools and a mainstay of southwest Fresno, took nearly a half-hour to...
Does Spending Dollars on Tutoring Make Sense If Fresno Unified Doesn’t Track Results?
Hey parents, School Zone has got a question for you: if you were spending your family's hard-earned money on a tutor to help your kids with their studies, you'd check and make sure that their grades were going up, right? Not so much for Fresno Unified, however. The school district...
Does Spending Dollars on Tutoring Make Sense If Fresno Unified Doesn’t Track Results?
Hey parents, School Zone has got a question for you: if you were spending your family's hard-earned money on a tutor to help your kids with their studies, you'd check and make sure that their grades were going up, right? Not so much for Fresno Unified, however. The school district...
Is It Time to Tear Down and Rebuild This Fresno School?
With $2.5 billion in facilities needs identified by consultants and school staffers, Fresno Unified has the seemingly insurmountable task of trying to find enough money to bring schools up to snuff. At a recent workshop, the board reviewed those needs and also talked about putting a new $500 million bond...
Is It Time to Tear Down and Rebuild This Fresno School?
With $2.5 billion in facilities needs identified by consultants and school staffers, Fresno Unified has the seemingly insurmountable task of trying to find enough money to bring schools up to snuff. At a recent workshop, the board reviewed those needs and also talked about putting a new $500 million bond...
Instead of More Music and Arts Like Voters Approved, There May Be Less in California Schools
The governor's budget revisions announced last week caused some heartburn among school officials in Fresno and across the state. With a huge looming deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom is looking to make some trims, but he didn't stop at just trimming next year's proposed budget. Newsom wants to whack out one-time...
Clovis School Psychologists Say Contract Talks Are at Impasse
More than a year has passed since Clovis Unified's school psychologists voted to be represented as a bargaining unit by the Association of Clovis Educators, but the district and union have not been able to reach agreement on ACE's first-ever contract. On Tuesday, ACE announced that the union and district...