Alum Rock Union School District Superintendent Hilaria Bauer has been ousted after a decade on the job. Last week, the district’s board of trustees voted 3-2 to terminate Bauer’s contract, …
RICHMOND — Maria Chavez first heard about George Miller III Children’s Center almost two decades ago when a neighbor recommended that she send her now-18-year-old daughter there for preschool. After …
BY CAROLYN JONES | CalMatters An end to billions of dollars in federal Covid relief funds, declining enrollment, staff raises, hiring binges and stagnant state funding should combine over the …
For too many American children, the future is already written. Their parents’ income broadly predicts what their earnings will be in adulthood. For those in poverty, the chances of breaking …
PLEASANT HILL — Dust replaced sawdust in the eight years that Valley View Middle School’s woodshop sat dormant. After a search to replace a retiring instructor proved fruitless, power tools …
RICHMOND — John F. Kennedy High School was so flush with teachers in the 1960s and ’70s that staff boasted of their pioneering food services training program and nationally ranked …
Seventeen-month-old Elliott Busa eagerly waits as a new package, addressed directly to him, arrives at his doorstep. He already knows what’s inside, and he can hardly contain himself as the …
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