A Fresno Unified teacher who reportedly told students in her virtual classroom that she was teaching them live from New Orleans during Mardi Gras may be facing disciplinary action from the district. The teacher's trip to the Big Easy surfaced during Power Talk radio host Trevor Carey's broadcast on Feb....
‘Huge Disconnect’: Trustees Delay Decision on Teacher Job Cuts in Central Unified
Ten Central Unified School District teacher jobs are being targeted for possible elimination by Superintendent Andy Alvarado, who says the district needs to make cuts now to counter a project budget deficit down the road. Such "course corrections" ideally would occur each year, based on a review of the district's...
Hanford Teacher's Christmas Wish? A New Pair of Lungs.
What Chrissy Mizer hopes to get for Christmas can't come down the chimney with Santa and won't fit under the tree. Listen to this article: Mizer, a second-grade teacher who lives in Lemoore, needs a new pair of lungs. And once she does get her long-awaited double-lung transplant, she'll...
Sunnyside Teacher Surprised With Teaching 'Oscar,' $25,000 Prize
Sunnyside High School teacher Katie McQuone is used to being behind the camera as head of the school's Video Production Academy. So McQuone was startled Tuesday morning to find cameras suddenly pointing at her during an assembly in the packed school gymnasium, where she was named winner of a $25,000 Milken...
Preschool Teachers Ask Why ‘Cashiers at McDonalds’ Get Better Pay
Preschool teacher Lorena Gomez’s work days begin at 6:30 a.m. when she welcomes a dozen 3-year-olds into her classroom. Every day, Gomez spends nine hours standing, sitting and crouching at the height of a toddler, passing out snacks, overseeing playtimes and teaching tiny Californians their numbers, shapes, colors, letters, and...
Valley School Disguises Janitor as Gunman for Active-Shooter Drill
The superintendent of a one-school district in Fresno County defended using a janitor disguised as a gunman in an active-shooter drill, saying he wanted to "make sure this was realistic." A teacher at Raisin City Elementary School told TV station KSEE that the drill, which happened before the summer break,...
Teachers Look Online for Climate Change Info, Find Propaganda
When science teacher Diana Allen set out to teach climate change, a subject she'd never learned in school, she fell into a rabbit's hole of misinformation: Many resources presented online as educational material were actually junk. "It is a pretty scary topic to take on," said Allen, a teacher at...
Teacher Who Stopped Gunman Says He Had To Save Students
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — A suburban Indianapolis teacher who was shot while tackling and disarming a student inside his classroom said Monday that his swift decisions "were the only acceptable actions" to save his seventh-grade students. Jason Seaman, speaking publicly for the first time since the shooting Friday, thanked the Noblesville...