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​This past November, hundreds of California school districts pursued local bond dollars to fix or update campuses across their communities.

Unions and labor activists share pro-immigrant provisions in their collective bargaining agreements.​

After nearly six months, district negotiators have returned to the bargaining table with representatives of its classified staff, the front desk assistants, janitors, cafeteria workers, bilingual translators and others who are not teachers but make schools run smoothly. 

“We’ve been waiting a long time,” said Mary Lehman, a Lead Information Technologist in the Santa Rosa City Schools district who is leading the union bargaining team. “Our members are the lowest paid workers. We are just asking for an equal share and to be treated equally.”​ 

Manteca USD recognized classified employees: Joshua Bowers, David Halla, Tracey Kestyus, and Paula Reynoso as  Employees of the Year.

​​A new executive order temporarily allows students to attend public schools outside their fire-ravaged districts and removes other hurdles to help displaced students, families who say their campuses destroyed.​ 

Students from two burned-down Los Angeles elementary schools will resume classes Wednesday in new locations in neighborhoods near fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades as employee unions estimate that at least 150 district staff, including many teachers, have lost their homes.

Rural school districts — already beset with financial struggles — are furiously scrambling to save a century-old funding source that Republican lawmakers last month eliminated from the federal budget. 

More than 1,300 staff members at the Pasadena Unified School District who were evacuated as a result of the Eaton Fire will receive free emergency housing through a district partnership with State Superintendent of Public Education Tony Thurmond and Airbnb.org

“Our school staff are the backbone of our communities,” Thurmond said in the release.