Bay Area School Tracker

Alameda USD (Alameda County) board on Feb 24 praised the WRaP team—psychologists/counselors tackling absenteeism via home visits, counseling. Students...

Palo Alto High School (Palo Alto, Santa Clara County) senior Duncan Sego launched a petition on Feb. 20 to eliminate administration's role in...

Key update for San Mateo County families (Feb. 27 settlement):

• Sequoia Union High School District (Menlo-Atherton High, Atherton) and town paid...

• Redwood City School District (San Mateo County) board approved an 8-year parcel tax for June 2 ballot, raising $12.2M/year at 17.5¢/sq ft ($175...

• San Mateo County Board of Education named Marco Chávez, former Deputy Superintendent, as interim County Superintendent after Nancy Magee's...

Timeline of SJUSD 'Schools of Tomorrow' delays (San Jose, Santa Clara County):

• Enrollment trigger: 6,000-student drop (20% since 2017), prompting...

Dublin Unified (Alameda Co.) teachers escalate to strike over budgets/layoffs.

• Feb 2026: DTA overwhelmingly authorizes strike post-Jan mediation.
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• Alameda County Superior Court filing: Parents/students from property-poor districts sued Friday to freeze $3 billion in Prop 2 state matching funds...

• Strike starts Mon (Feb 9?), schools shut 4 days for ~50k students in SFUSD (San Francisco); parents juggle work/childcare, face...

Alum Rock Union School District (East San Jose, Santa Clara County) lays off up to 38 employees.

• Triggered by $8M budget deficit, declining...

• What happened: U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked California's K-12 policy barring schools from outing transgender students to parents without...

Lowell High School, San Francisco (SFUSD): Math teacher Tom Chan under investigation for test questions on girls' weights and 'fat kids'; students say...

Timeline of Oakland Unified progress averting strike:

• Year-long talks culminate: After mediation and strike authorization vote, OEA and OUSD agree...

Relief for South Bay families: South Bay Union School District (South Bay area) unanimously approved a two-year teacher contract Thursday, after union...

• New option in Santa Clara County: BASIS Independent Schools seeks to lease and adapt a vacant 72,700 sq ft office at 525 Race St., San Jose's...

Major lawsuit targets antisemitism in Bay Area public schools, filed this week by Brandeis Center and StandWithUs on behalf of five families.

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Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) in Alameda County reached a tentative contract with the Alameda Education Association (AEA) on Feb. 11,...

San Jose Unified School District (SJUSD) in Santa Clara County proposes closing up to nine elementary schools—key community hubs—under its "Schools of...

• San Mateo-Foster City School District (San Mateo County): Brothers Ethan and Desmond Hua's nonprofit H.O.P.E. collects gently used uniforms from...

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