One of the biggest issues administrators at Sutter Middle School in Folsom faced coming back to campus after COVID-19 shutdowns was the prevalence of cellphone use on campus. Online bullying was a ...

Committee members say this Banning USD middle school is one to model other schools after. See why in the story.

California has some of the nation’s top public schools, according to Niche, a ranking and review site. The site recently released its 2026 list of the Best Schools in America, evaluating schools based ...

The California Lottery raised more than $2.25 billion for the state’s public schools in 2024, bringing to $46 billion the total the lottery has generated for education since its inception in 1985.

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Elkhorn School in Stockton was ranked as one of the best middle schools in California in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings for 2025. The school, which has an enrollment of 266 students and ...

Two Desert Sands Unified School District middle schools were recently named to the 2025 California Schools to Watch List for demonstrating academic excellence and equipping teachers with the necessary ...

Students, teachers and parents in Woodland, near Sacramento, can now check out nearly 500 books featuring Native American stories and authors from a library at Douglass Middle School. The creation of ...

A California middle school student suspended for allegedly wearing “blackface” to a football game in October 2023 had his record expunged in a settlement with the school after he said he was simply ...

When the superintendent in San Francisco Unified proposed closing schools recently, parents launched a prolonged — and successful — protest. The uproar may have died down for now, but the issue is ...