Clovis West gets to show off the $7.5 million overhaul of its Olympic Swim Complex, which reopened earlier this week with a dual meet with Buchanan High School and which will host the 30-team Clovis West Invite this weekend and the California Interscholastic Federation state swimming and diving championships in...
How Long Has This Fresno High Stairwell Been Known As the ‘Baby-Making Area’?
It seems that most people at Fresno High School know that a certain stairwell at the school is a locus for bad behavior, including the recent explosion of a "large firecracker" that injured a teacher and several students and frightened others. The explosion came only days after a phoned bomb...
Drunk, Defiant Students Won’t Be Suspended or Expelled Under New California Bills
Two bills pending before the California Legislature would bar school officials from suspending or expelling students who are drunk or high, or who engage in what's known as "willful defiance" at school. The goal of Senate Bill 274 and Assembly Bill 599 is to further limit the reasons that students...
Fresno’s Newest High School Will Have Portable Classrooms Next Fall
Installing portable classrooms is a fairly typical move for schools that have more students than instructional space, although not always a desired solution. In the case of Justin Garza High School, Central Unified's newest school, portables will be needed next fall because classroom space won't be available for the four...
Executive Chef’s $84K Mission: Serving Tasty, Unfrozen Fresno School Lunches
The Fresno Unified School Board will take a step closer to what trustees hope will be a solution to the nagging problem of crappy school lunches. On Wednesday night's agenda is the adoption of an executive chef job description and salary. In addition to collaborating with the district's nutritionist to...
Why Is Fresno Unified Serving Frozen School Lunches?
The Fresno Unified School Board learned Wednesday about plans to hire new executive chefs to make meals more appetizing for students, ongoing efforts to reduce the amount of food that students toss into trash cans, the adoption of compostable lunch trays that also reduce the waste stream, and the potential...
Despite Wawona’s Crisis, 2 Fresno Trustees Opposed Contract with Sheriff’s Office
About an hour after a handful of teachers from Wawona Middle School had described, emotionally and in great detail, the disturbing and dangerous situations they say are constantly occurring at their school, the Fresno Unified School Board considered whether to sign a contract with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office for...
Peer Teaching Links Health Care and Construction Students at Clovis High
The green-shirted construction students in Jay Eichmann's career technical education classroom at Clovis High School listened intently as turquoise-jacketed instructors taught them how to treat burns, bandage impalements and broken bones, and deal with other injuries that can occur on a job site. They may even have been listening more...
Here’s How Fresno Unified Kids Are Becoming Better Readers
Fresno Unified knows that one of the best ways to improve literacy among students is to get books into their hands. To that end, the district is again partnering with Scholastic this year to distribute more than 100,000 books to students in preschool through eighth grade. On Monday, five-book packs...
Fresno State’s Day of Giving Comes Up Shorter on Cash But Longer on Donors
The extra 471 minutes that Fresno State added to its sixth annual Day of Giving may not have yielded a lot of extra cash for the annual D.O.G. fundraiser, but the university was happy to report more donors shelled out this year than last. Last year the university reported raising...