With teacher-school district deal in place, Oakland kids head back to class
An agreement reached between the Oakland Education Association and the school district includes a salary increase for most teachers. Betty Yu reports. (8-6-23)
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An agreement reached between the Oakland Education Association and the school district includes a salary increase for most teachers. Betty Yu reports. (8-6-23)
As middle schools and high schools across California are starting classes later under a new state law, a Bay Area lawmaker is making a similar push for schools nationwide.
The bill, which would be enacted in the 2024-25 school year if signed by the governor, would require all children to attend one year of kindergarten before they can go to first grade.
A Silicon Valley teacher has seemingly cracked the code in teaching young children as young as seven, how to think like programmers or software engineers.
Getting enough teachers for the start of the new school year at the San Francisco Unified School District has proven to be a daunting task. Reed Cowan reports.
A new, in-person school year is underway in Oakland, and for parents and teachers alike, that means a chance for kids to catch up on learning time lost during COVID.
Here's a list of the Bay Area school districts and campuses that have or will be welcoming students back to school this month.
It's a labor of love and back-to-school tradition for cancer survivor Dee Johnson. Every year, she brings smiles to the faces of Oakland school children during her annual backpack giveaway
There’s a push to remove barriers to education and boost enrollment in the East Bay by making community college classes free. Da Lin reports. (8-14-22
The California Department of Public Health is reminding parents to make sure their kids are up to date with their routine vaccinations. Max Darrow reports. (8-12-22)
As a new school year is set to begin soon, the California Department of Public Health (CA DPH) is reminding families to make sure their kids are up to date with their routine vaccinations.
Beginning this fall high schools in the nation's most populous state can't start before 8:30 a.m. and middle schools can't start before 8 a.m. under a 2019 first-in-the-nation law forbidding earlier start times.
With the COVID-19 positivity rate topping 11% in California, parents wonder what will happen at schools where kids are set to return next week.
As tens of thousands of Bay Area students return to the classroom, many parents are finding themselves concerned over the highly-transmissible and more severe COVID-19 Delta variant.
On Saturday in East Oakland, kids heading back to school got free backpacks and some encouragement from a Golden State Warrior who is very familiar with the neighborhood.
With school about to resume in many Bay Area districts there is one last push to get as many students vaccinated as possible.
It may be July now but summer play time will soon give way to classroom time and one set of students is still waiting for their turn to be vaccinated: kids age five to eleven.
San Francisco public high school seniors will be allowed back on campus for the final weeks of the school year, according to a statement released this weekend by teachers union officials.
Saturday was a statewide day of demonstrations, marches and rallies marking one year of closed schools and calling for a full reopening of classroom learning.
March is typically not the time of year for football but the Friday night lights are back on as schools in the Bay Area try to salvage some sort of season.
The San Francisco Unified School District announced Friday night that "a select number" of city public schools are on track to resume in-person learning for young students beginning April 12.
The San José Unified School District announced Thursday it had secured 4,000 COVID-19 vaccination opportunities, enough to cover its entire workforce.
The goal was to start reopening San Francisco schools on January 25 but, according to the district, it just can't meet the latest round of demands from the teachers union.
The merit-based selection system at San Francisco's prestigious Lowell High School may be about to change.
For her sophomore year, Students Rising Above scholar Madison Schmidt found a largely empty campus as her fellow students stay inside their dorm rooms, learn online and practice strict social distancing.
