Education

Folsom Cordova Unified School District is considering shaving a class period off the school day for high school juniors and seniors to help shore up a $10.6 million budget deficit projected for next year.

California State University officials may have followed federal guidelines in reporting that stimulus money saved an inordinate number of campus jobs, but someone in the university system should have objected to reporting the numbers because "they don't make sense," California's stimulus watchdog official said Friday.

California may be gaining ground in its race to the top.

The University of California, Davis, said this week that it has entered into a 10-year agreement with U.S. Bank, which will provide nearly $3 million to support student services and bring the campus its first bank branch.

The California State Senate voted Tuesday to pass Senate Bill X5 1, which would make the state more competitive for federal Race to the Top stimulus funds.

A $2 million gift to boost entrepreneurship studies at UC Davis was announced this week by the university's Graduate School of Management, part of its continuing efforts to propel innovative ideas out of the classroom and into the business world.

A high school principal spent Thursday and Friday at home resting after suffering a head injury breaking up a food fight Wednesday in his campus cafeteria.

One of the more obscure – and probably more important – of California's many political conflicts pits an organization called EdVoice against the California Teachers Association and other school unions.

Documents used to justify large grants from the federal government that support the violence prevention program at UC Davis raise additional questions about inconsistencies in the school's reporting of crime statistics.

Parents are invited to learn about schools and enrollment options in the Sacramento City Unified School District at an upcoming gathering.

He was a professor's dream, the kind of student who hung onto every word of every lecture and came back for more after class ended.

Teens, parents, cops and counselors will come together for Youth Against Hate Awareness Night, a program designed to promote tolerance and racial understanding, today at McClatchy High School.

Children no longer play on the jungle gym at 49-year-old Billy Mitchell Elementary School in North Sacramento, but inside its stark white halls teenagers are taking classes in math, computer science and French.

McClatchy High School Principal Cynthia Clark will move to the Sacramento City Unified School District administration offices Thursday as a "principal on special assignment."

Sacramento State officials released a detailed timeline Friday of the response to this week's deadly violence inside a campus dormitory that suggests Quran Jones started his rampage before his victim got home.

The Los Rios Community College District is seeking candidates to serve on its board of trustees. In the next month, the board will appoint someone to fill a vacancy created by Ann Blackwood's recent resignation.

As president of Sacramento State, Alexander Gonzalez is known as an occasionally combative man with eyebrows that furrow like crossed swords.

Tom Barentson has resigned as deputy superintendent and chief financial officer of the Sacramento City Unified School District.

The Twin Rivers Unified School District will soon be visited by staff members from American Institutes for Research and Pivot Learning Partners to assess how it can best use its money.

Police say they still don't know what sparked the brutal outburst at a Sacramento State dormitory that resulted in the death of one student and wounding of another.

Roseville, Lodi and Sacramento County high school students have until Nov. 13 to apply to attend a two-day summit where they can learn about energy and qualify to earn a scholarship.

The most effective teaching strategies from state schools are now being shared on the Signatures Practices Web site launched Wednesday.

The student who was beaten to death Wednesday in a Sacramento State University dormitory has been identified today as Scott Gregory Hawkins, 23, of Santa Clara.

Work begins today on a $24.5 million state-of-the-art sports complex at Luther Burbank High School that is expected to stimulate the struggling economy around Florin Road.