The National Safety Council offers tips on keeping your student safe and sound as they return to school this month. Good reminders for all!
A video purportedly showing staff laughing as a Tobinworld teacher's aide strikes a child led to arrests earlier this year.
Contra Costa County Office of Education honored 21 Teachers of the Year at an event held in their honor.
Congrats to the recipients!
16 Contra Costa County high schools will be competing, including Acalanes, Alhambra, Campolindo, Miramonte, Northgate and Pinole Valley.
Nearby UC Davis is offering sessions in the new year on how to keep bees or improve your beekeeping skills. Registration is underway ...
Martinez Unified School District Governing Board seat vacancy effective January 31, 2016.
Martinez Unified School District 2016-2017 Kindergarten Registration dates and times.
Kids are showing signs of stress, physical health problems, a lack of balance and even alienation from society.
The largest study of its kind, a new study on campus rape underscores the challenges facing American Universities.
The union claimed over the last 10 years more than half of all CSU faculty has been hired into temporary positions with lower pay.
Researcher finds that school meals can contain unsafe levels of a toxic chemical, putting low-income students particularly at risk.
Visit the Crestmont campus and learn about our holistic approach to learning and how we celebrate the talents of each individual student!
Students who are chronically absent in kindergarten and first grade will be four times more likely to drop out of high school.
Stanford study suggests that today's ice sheets may be more resilient to increased carbon dioxide levels than previously thought.
The data breach victimized some 80,000 students statewide.
With the California Mission's founder about to be named a saint, the church plans to be more sensitive to the heartache natives suffered.
East Bay therapist explains the difference, and warns parents not to get talked into one when your child needs the other.
Task force stated Friday that confidence is lost with current agency, and our state's 113 junior colleges deserve better.
Some preventative and treatment steps to take.
Nearly one-third of child pedestrian deaths occur after school between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., new report says.
Lunches to pack, sharing the road with school buses, prescription glasses--there’s a lot to absorb! We’ve gathered the resources for you.
Area therapist gives tips on how to help your teen transition into this big step -- and how YOU can turn this time into VERY useful dialogue
Deals abound, with one store offering a complete set of glasses--lenses and frames--for just $29.
As kids head to school, something worse than homework and detention awaits many of them. Did you know "selfies" can be a lice contributor?
Hiker warning: Study reveals mysterious pathogen in high concentrations in trailside ticks in the Bay Area - from Sonoma to Santa Cruz.
Remember--kids can trade or toss stuff they don't like, so make sure your children actually like the food you're sending to school.
Children are heading back-to-school across California, so in your own neighborhood and where you commute to work--be safe!
Under California law, children must be fully immunized before starting school.
Researchers say getting more sleep improves academic performance. But is it feasible to push back middle and high school start times?
Getting more sleep improves academic performance, but is it feasible to push back middle and high school start times?
Here are several questions all students should consider before applying for Early Decision to colleges and universities.
There are about three times the complaints in comparison to the 1980s, yet roughly half the staff to handle the complaints.
Got an idea for technology related to therapeutics, consumer health, medical devices or diagnostics? Money is available.
For many, the pressure to do it all -- and do it all well -- is taking its toll. Simple changes can be key, researchers report.
A new study by a financial advice company may surprise you.
Funding for the raises is coming from the state.
"This is the right thing to do -- for our workers and their families," UC President Janet Napolitano said.
#PlutoFly - An instrument designed by Stanford researchers is on board NASA's New Horizons.
Law students from Stanford offer analysis on the issue if voters do approve ballot measures in 2016.