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Gov. Newsom Signs Law Overhauling Charter Schools
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law overhauling California charter schools Thursday in a move seen as a compromise between the state’s teachers’ unions and charter school supporters.
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California Law Bars Suspensions for Talking Back to Teachers
California’s elementary and middle school students won’t be suspended for things like falling asleep in class or talking back to the teacher under a bill signed by the state’s governor.
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Oakland Educators Accused of Falsifying Transcripts to Boost Students' Grades and Graduation Rates
Educators at an east Oakland high school are accused of falsifying transcripts as part of intricate cheating scandal involving top school administrators, teachers, and at least one guidance counselor. The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit spoke exclusively to three teachers who say failing grades they assigned to students over the past few years were altered just days prior to graduation.
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California Overhauls Sex Education Guidance for Teachers
California has overhauled its sex education guidance for public school teachers, encouraging them to talk about gender identity with kindergartners and give advice to LGBT teenagers for navigating relationships and having safe sex.
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Graduation Rates in San Francisco on the Rise: School District Officials
More students in San Francisco are graduating, including minority, immigrant, disabled and homeless students, San Francisco Unified School District officials announced Thursday.
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DA: 10 Kids Were Strangled, Shot With Crossbow, Waterboarded
The 10 children rescued from a filthy, abusive California home were strangled, punched, shot with crossbows and subjected to waterboarding by their father and their mother did nothing to stop it, prosecutors said. The details of alleged abuse were included in a motion to increase the bail of Ina Rogers, 31, who was charged with nine counts of felony child...
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California Receives $14 Million Grant for Schools Affected by Wildfires
The California Department of Education will receive a federal emergency grant of more than $14 million to help schools affected by the North Bay wildfires last year as well as ones in Southern California, department officials said Tuesday.
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State Developing Regulations Requiring Active Shooter Training in Workplaces
The shooting at YouTube’s headquarters is putting workplace safety on everyone’s mind. But many California employees may have never had training on what to do if someone with a gun enters their buildings. Most workplaces across the state aren’t required to conduct active shooting training for employees, but the Investigative Unit has learned that could soon change under a new...
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99 Bay Area School Districts Say They Conduct Active Shooter Drills
Ninety-nine schools districts in the Bay Area conduct active shooter drills, according to data collected by the California Bureau of State Audits.
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State Employee at School for the Deaf Accused of Child Molestation: CHP
A state employee working as a counselor at a school in Fremont was arrested last week on suspicion of child molestation, according to the California Highway Patrol.
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‘The Hostility Has to End': Rocklin Charter Schools OK Transgender Books After Fracas Over ‘I am Jazz'
A Northern California school board voted unanimously to keep its literature policies following months of controversy over a book about a transgender child that a teacher read to a kindergarten class.
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Group Seeks Processed Meat Ban in California Schools
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine filed the lawsuit Tuesday asking a court to ban the district from offering processed meats. It seeks the same ban for the Poway school district in San Diego County.
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California's First All-Girls School in 20 Years to Open in LAUSD
An all-girls school in Los Angeles Unified School District is set to have its first day of school Tuesday, making it the first non-charter school of its kind for public school students to open in California in 20 years.
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Parents Worry as California Schools Set to Release Kids' Personal Data
A lawsuit, a massive amount of data, and your children are at the heart of what could be a growing controversy....
A California group called the Concerned Parent Association has won, in court, the right to data collected through the years by the California Department of Education about students from grades K-12....
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California High Schools to Learn ‘Yes Means Yes' Sex Policy
Gov. Jerry Brown has approved legislation aimed at making California the first state in the nation to bring lessons about sexual consent required at many colleges into high schools, his office announced Thursday.