Salinas High School senior raises money for signs to help visually impaired students
A Salinas High School student is helping visually impaired students by raising money for new…
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MPUSD to discuss potential employee housing development at Tuesday meeting
The Monterey Peninsula Unified School District is set to discuss a potential employee housing…
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Salinas elementary school district to offer free breakfast, lunch to students for 4 years
The Salinas City Elementary School District announced that it has been approved to serve…
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Central Coast YMCA to provide child care and help with online learning
The YMCA of the Central Coast is offering an outside-of-school program to help students…
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PVUSD removes school resource officers from campus
The Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) board of trustees voted to remove school resource officers from all high school campuses.…
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Monterey County school districts find solutions for homeless students
Monterey County schools are preparing to start the year off with distance learning.…
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North Monterey County USD provides distance, in-person learning options
The North Monterey County Unified School District announced that it will begin the school…
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Monterey County reports child care shortage
The Monterey County Office of Education is reporting a reduction in child care capacity due to…
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Santa Cruz County schools to require distance learning only at start of school year
The Santa Cruz County Office of Education and Santa Cruz County school districts…
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Gov. Newsom: Schools can physically reopen when county is off monitoring list for 14 days
Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to announce new guidance for reopening California schools in a news conference Friday.…
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Bags Full of Science offers South County students hands on alternative to distance learning
Bags Full of Science offers hands on learning to students sheltering in…
Continue Reading Greenfield USD to start school year with all distance learning
The Greenfield Union School District has decided to continue with distance…
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Former Santa Cruz teacher investigated for sexual misconduct claims out of San Jose
Officials at Presentation High School in San Jose has released a report about an…
Continue Reading MPUSD decides on distant learning to start school year
We are learning more about why MPUSD has decided to start the school year with distance learning.…
Continue Reading Pajaro Valley USD to start school year with distance learning
The Pajaro Valley Unified School District announced that it will begin the 2020-2021 school…
Continue Reading Monterey Peninsula Unified School District will start with distance learning this Fall
It’s been a long summer for teachers waiting to hear when, and how, they will start up school. “There’s a very real lack of comfort with the idea of…
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Trump administration drops restrictions on online-only instruction for foreign students
The Trump administration has rescinded its policy that would bar international…
Continue Reading Parents start petition to reopen schools full-time for vulnerable students
Kids are finding fun in staying home this Summer, but parents are worried about what lies…
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PVUSD delaying decision on school re-opening plan; parents weigh in
A decision has yet to be made by the Pajaro Valley Unified School District on what the re-opening of school will look like in the…
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Striking UCSC teaching assistants reach partial deal with University
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KION) UC Santa Cruz has reached a settlement with the union that represents a majority of striking UCSC teaching assistants and…
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USC offers to add no-cost in-person courses to schedule for international students
The University of Southern California announced a way that it will help international students affected by ICE’s new…
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Central Coast schools discuss reopening plan for upcoming school year
MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. (KION) Schools across the Central Coast are mulling over plans for what the upcoming school year is going to be like. For…
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Stanford drops 11 sports to cut costs during pandemic
Stanford is dropping 11 sports amid financial difficulties caused by the coronavirus…
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Education fund created for children of Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller
An education fund has been created for the children of Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, who was killed on duty…
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Carmel parents petition for schools to hold full-time, in-person classes
Parents of students within the Carmel Unified School District are gathering signatures to get the district to allow full-time, in-person classes for…
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Pajaro Valley Unified School District considers alterations to School Resource Officer contracts
WATSONVILLE, Calif. (KION) The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees plans to discuss School Resource Officers at an upcoming…
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CSUMB police ban chokeholds as university president speaks out against racism
President Eduardo Ochoa and several departments at California State University, Monterey Bay have released…
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Racist messages sent to UCSC email accounts, FBI helping investigate
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KION)– Officials with UCSC say they denounce the “racist, hateful” emails sent to some UC Santa Cruz email accounts this past…
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Hartnell College receives exclusive grant from National Endowment for the Humanities
Hartnell College said it is the only community college in California and one of 300 institutions nationwide to get funding…
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California Department of Education launches online suicide prevention training
The California Department of Education is launching a free suicide prevention training program with help of the San Diego…
Continue Reading Hartnell College president to resign
Monday is the first day of Summer classes at Hartnell College, but the campus is quiet. Students and staff are starting another semester of online…
Continue Reading UC Santa Cruz: Most fall courses to be held remotely or online
UC Santa Cruz released its plans for the upcoming fall semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and university…
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California Department of Education releases guidance for reopening schools
Hallways and desks are empty as some schools wrap up their final week before Summer break. “Some of the students have been dying to come back. They…
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Salinas Union High School District holds drive-up graduation ceremonies
Several high schools in the Salinas Union High School District are holding drive-up graduation ceremonies…
Continue Reading Pajaro Valley USD requests parent feedback ahead of school reopening
Before schools reopen in the fall, the Pajaro Valley Unified School District is asking parents for feedback while they make…
Continue Reading Carmel High School holds graduation ceremony at Laguna Seca raceway
Carmel High School is preparing to hold its 2020 graduation ceremony at Weathertech Raceway Laguna…
Continue Reading Learning for Life Charter holds graduation ceremony at Laguna Seca raceway
Learning for Life Charter is holding its graduation ceremony at Weathertech Raceway Laguna…
Continue Reading Monterey County high schools hold graduation ceremonies at raceway Saturday
Several graduation ceremonies are taking place Saturday at Weathertech Raceway Laguna…
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Pacific Grove High School holds graduation ceremony at raceway
MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. (KION) It was one for the history books for Pacific Grove High School’s Class of 2020 on Friday, where hundreds gathered at…
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Central Coast Comeback: Schools prepare for 2020-2021 academic year
Schools on the Central Coast have been dark since mid-March. For the first time ever, classes transitioned to a completely online, and it was…
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Monterey peninsula high schools get ready for graduation ceremonies
The end to high school for Seaside seniors did not go as planned. “Us seniors, we can’t spend time with each other. It is what it is. We have to push…
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University of California board votes to suspend SAT/ACT requirement
The University of California announced Thursday that its Board of Regents unanimously approved the decision to suspend the SAT/ACT…
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Carmel Unified School District Superintendent agrees to resign with pay until 2021
CARMEL, Calif. (KION) Carmel Unified School District Superintendent Barbara Dill-Varga has agreed to resign.…
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MPUSD considers consolidating schools
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District is considering consolidating schools as a way to deal with potential budget reductions brought on by the…
Continue Reading CSU, UC systems expected to hold most classes online in Fall 2020
California State University Chancellor Timothy White said at a Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday that the majority of Fall 2020 classes throughout…
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CSUMB says it received the largest gift in its history
California State University, Monterey Bay said it has received its largest gift in its 25 year…
Continue Reading CSUMB students to get millions in financial relief
More than 6,000 students at California State University, Monterey Bay will be getting financial help through the CARES…
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Junipero Serra School to close permanently after this school year
The Diocese of Monterey announced that Junipero Serra School will be closing permanently at the end of the 2019-2020 school…
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New stops added to MST WiFi project providing internet access to students
Monterey-Salinas Transit has been working with the Monterey County Office of Education and several area school districts to send…
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Unimpressed by online classes, college students seek refunds
Students at more than 25 universities are filing lawsuits demanding tuition refunds from their schools after finding that the online classes they’re…
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