Fifteen-year-old Sandra Hernandez can’t get this one Tuesday morning out of her head. “All I was thinking at that time was ‘I wanted my dad back,’” she said. “I wanted him to get in the car and for us to go to school like any other day.” Her father, Hugo …
Read More »ACLU Files Complaint Against Fresno Unified School District For Racism Gone ‘Unchecked’
The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California filed a discrimination complaint against the Fresno Unified School District Thursday on behalf of two black Bullard High School students, claiming the school failed to protect students from racial abuse. There’s been a pattern of racism and anti-blackness throughout the district, ACLU …
Read More »Bakersfield Built: An Earthquake, A High School Teacher And A Pipeline For Architects
Bakersfield is well known in the arts for its contributions to country music, notably the Bakersfield Sound. But it’s not as well recognized for its architecture. A new exhibit at the Bakersfield Museum of Art may help change that. It’s called Bakersfield Built: Architecture of the 1960s . Several events …
Read More »After Realistic Active Shooter Drill, Raisin City School Board Considers Fallout
The Raisin City School Board is meeting today to discuss the consequences of a surprise active shooter drill that terrified students and involved a staff member going around campus with a mask and fake gun. The board is considering whether to discipline or remove the school’s superintendent. Raisin City Elementary …
Read More »Fresno State Nursing School Suffers Second Accreditation Setback In A Year
Fresno State announced Wednesday that its Master of Science in Nursing has lost its accreditation, a first for the degree program since it was established in 1968. It’s also the university’s first program to ever lose its accreditation, and it follows less than a year after the nursing school learned …
Read More »Arambula Trial Continues With 6-Year-Old Daughter, School Staff Testifying
Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula’s criminal trial continued Tuesday with a second daughter testifying. Arambula is accused of alleged child abuse after his 7-year-old daughter, who testified Friday and Monday, told school officials back in December that he slapped her, causing a bruise on her face. Arambula’s 6-year-old daughter, whose name we …
Read More »ACLU Sues Madera County School For Calling Student Yearbook Quotes ‘Politically Divisive’
Attorneys with the ACLU filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a school district in Madera County, saying it violated two students’ right to free speech and right to anti-LGBTQ bias in California schools. When Minarets High School students Steven Madrid and Mikayla Garaffa submitted their senior quotes to the yearbook, they …
Read More »How A Law On Lead In School Drinking Water May Not Go Far Enough
In January of this year, a state law went into effect that requires public schools throughout California to test their drinking water for lead by July of 2019. Lawmakers enacted the regulation in an effort to improve water quality at schools. And while thousands of water districts have now tested …
Read More »Upgrade: UCSF Fresno Program Gets Status Boost For Medical School
For years, local medical and political leaders have been calling for a medical school in the San Joaquin Valley. Now the long-running UCSF Fresno graduate medical education program is getting a boost towards that goal. The university has announced that it is upgrading the Fresno program’s status to that of …
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Teen wore a KKK costume to school all day. His history teacher approved it, students say
Exploring race and racism is part of history classes across the U.S., where slavery, Jim Crow and systematic discrimination have all played a part in how Americans perceive one another. … Click to Continue »
Read More »Stories of alleged sexual harassment continue as Merced high school board addresses policies
The national “#MeToo” discussion that has reinvigorated conversations on sexual assault and harassment came to Atwater on Wednesday, as teachers, students and supporters continued to come forward and claim the … Click to Continue »
Read More »California high school grads increasingly leave state for college. Here’s where they go.
With California universities more expensive and crowded than ever, high school graduates are increasingly leaving the state to attend college. About 40,000 California high school graduates left the state for … Click to Continue »
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