Education

The car allowances aren't new. The San Juan Unified School District has been giving them for years to administrators who are expected to travel between school facilities, but you may not have known it.

Twin Rivers Unified School District has placed its teachers union President John Ennis on paid administrative leave while police investigate an allegation that he was involved in an altercation Wednesday with one of his special education students.

A former private school principal who has been charged with six felony counts of child molestation pleaded not guilty Wednesday.

Arguing that the public has a right to know the names of the police officers involved in the November pepper-spray incident at UC Davis, The Bee and the Los Angeles Times sued Wednesday to force disclosure of their identities.

Money orders, bank statements and credit card bills are among the documents Twin Rivers Unified School District officials turned over to authorities as evidence trustee Cortez Quinn allegedly accepted $55,000 in illegal loans from a school district employee.

The California School Boards Association has endorsed both Gov. Jerry Brown's tax initiative and a rival measure on the November ballot, calling the dual backing "an unprecedented move."

The Twin Rivers Police Department has curtailed its emphasis on traffic enforcement, and more operational changes will follow if the school district police force moves forward with recommendations in a report released Tuesday.

The Senate on Monday approved a bill to limit pay for California State University employees making more than $200,000 a year.

School districts with 2.6 million of the state's 6 million K-12 students are in "financial jeopardy," state schools chief Tom Torlakson declared Monday, including 12 so troubled that they are virtually insolvent.

Winston Churchill Middle School in Carmichael placed fourth in the National Science Olympiad tournament at the University of Central Florida in Orlando on Friday and Saturday.

Folsom Lake College has become a staging ground for a drama born of the 9/11 era that is playing out in an intersection of fear, misunderstanding and academic frustration.

UC Davis students and officials on Friday welcomed their new Student Community Center and celebrated a new mural painted on the building by one of the campus' emeritus faculty.

A whistle-blower fired while cooperating with a state probe of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing about 18 months ago has lost her appeal before the State Personnel Board.

Twin Rivers Unified School District trustee Cortez Quinn released a brief statement Thursday in response to allegations he illegally took substantial loans from a district employee, who also filed a paternity suit against him.

Last week – in a replay of what the board did in March 2011 – trustees voted to approve sending final pink slips to 395 of the Sacramento City Unified School District's certificated work force – primarily teachers, counselors and nurses.

Twin Rivers Unified School District officials have informed the Sacramento County district attorney of allegations that trustee Cortez Quinn illegally took a substantial loan from a district employee.

University of California regents warned Wednesday of more potential tuition increases, while student protesters again disrupted a meeting of the university's governing board.

Sacramento City Unified School District made drastic cuts to reduce its budget deficit by $28 million, including:

Though she took "full responsibility" months ago, UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi detailed for lawmakers Tuesday specific mistakes she made in a campus pepper-spraying incident that sparked national headlines and outrage.

Twin Rivers Unified School District school board candidate John Berchielli has a lengthy criminal record, including felony convictions for child endangerment, setting booby traps, marijuana cultivation and welfare fraud.

The Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy, a Sacramento-based nonprofit offering an entrepreneurial fellowship program, said it will fund $47,500 in scholarships for up to 25 fellows in its 2012-13 class.

Hundreds of pink-slipped teachers in Sacramento County are sighing a breath of relief this week as school districts revoke some of the preliminary layoff notices sent out in March. But many more are polishing up their résumés and looking for new jobs.

Parents are angry and Roseville City School District officials have plans to sue after St. John's School trustees announced the small private school is broke and will close at the end of the month.

George "Jorge" Anthony Knott was by all accounts unconventional.

Eureka Elementary School in Granite Bay and Lake Forest Elementary School in El Dorado Hills were the big winners at the recent Nature Bowl finals at California State University, Sacramento.