Fresno Unified School District

The Foundation for Fresno Unified Students will be donating $1.5 million to help cover the costs.

Fresno Unified students missed new literacy target goals, but Superintendent Misty Her insisted during her school board presentation that schools still are moving in the right direction.

The apology follows calls from the teacher’s union to resign and a revelation that the alleged incident did not occur.

Philanthropist and early Amazon contributor MacKenzie Scott has donated more than $461 million to California public education institutions since 2021.

School funding in California steers a lot to wealthy districts and to those with high-needs students. Those in the middle get a lot less.

Fresno Unified School District is spending $4 million a year to repair and replace laptops. It will be shifting computer access to in-class only in the fall.

Facing a growing budget deficit, Fresno Unified School District, California’s third-largest, finalized hundreds of layoff notices, eliminating positions tied to mental health, foster youth services and chronic absenteeism interventions.

As Fresno Unified makes cuts to address a projected $55 million deficit next year, this week's board meeting revealed which jobs are on the line — but the school board didn’t have much to say about it.

The approved reductions are on top of 274 other position cuts approved by the district board on Feb. 25.

A funding freeze to multiple federal grants that support childcare has been temporarily halted, with it previously impacting around $10 billion in funding to five states.