All the players involved in the homework equation in the Walnut Creek and Mt. Diablo school districts--notably students--now have guidelines on how teachers should assign work done outside class.
Matt Campbell, coming to the downtown Walnut Creek high school from a long career in Pleasanton, talks about providing new technology for classrooms and teaching new life skills for students.
STAR scores recently came out, just in time for the beginning for school. But STAR tests are not the only way to get a statistical picture of the Walnut Creek public school your kids attend--or where you want to buy a home. Check here for more data.
The Walnut Creek School District, which rarely sees contested elections for school boards, now has a five-way contest for three seats.
The board member, elected in 2006, says he wants to spent more time with his young children, as well as on his business.
Could the usually quiet, unassuming race for Walnut Creek School Board be heating up--just a bit? Four new candidates have taken out papers this week, following decision of long-time board member not to run.
The poll, commissioned by Measure C supporters, shows that voters would likely support a bond measure that would improve campus facilities and would support continuing the tax rate imposed under a 2002 bond measure.
A Walnut Creek City Councilman responds to criticism of how the Measure C bond measure campaign was conducted.
With long-time board member Dan Walden deciding not to seek re-election in November, one seat for Walnut Creek School District board is wide open.
The Contra Costa Times is pushing these question pretty hard with recent news reports; but local bloggers question the Times motives.
MDUSD trustees adopted a policy that attempts to add clarity to how students should be assigned homework.
Superintendent Steven Lawrence says the district may need to bring in an outside mediator to settle outstanding benefits and furlough disputes with unions representing classified employees.
Walnut Creek's Mel's Drive-In, as in the George Lucas film, was just one of the places that teens hung out in downtown Creek in the 1950s and 1960s.
The district adopted its 2010-11 budget but left some issues, including the number of layoffs still to come, unresolved.
Newsweek magazine has come out again with its annual ranking of the best public high schools in the United States. Many of our East Bay schools made the list, some are missing. We've also added some numbers for each school. What do you think?
Millions of dollars to be cut; furlough days, reduced benefits to be instituted, unions plan to protest.
Walnut Creek School District finishes up improvements to sports fields this summer at its six schools.
Students from Las Lomas and Northgate high schools have graduated. What did they think about school and what are they looking forward to this summer and for the rest of their lives?
For now, Bancroft Elementary School Principal Linda Schuler will stay where she is and not transfer to another school, as the district proposed.
Besides considering its budget, the Mount Diablo Unified School Board also has another hot issue on its hands, and it has to do with Northgate High's football field.
Budget cuts meant that Walnut Creek would have to close its unique summer camp for disabled kids, But now there is hope, definitely for this summer, but also for the future.
Trying to heal from the loss of their friend Adam Williams in a murder-suicide last summer, Las Lomas High students gathered beneath an oak tree in Shell Ridge Open Space this week to make a dedication that celebrates his memory.
Walnut Creek's acclaimed continuation high school, a refuge for kids who didn't fit in to mainstream high school, is graduating its last class today. Then there will be no more Del Oro, but there will be something else.
The new Walnut Creek School District policy includes time limits on homework for each of the district's K-8 grades and the declaration that homework should not be frustrating but a meaningful and purposeful outgrowth of the classroom experience.
Parent leaders and Walnut Creek Intermediate are working on a plan so that the school has two people providing discipline and counseling at the downtown school.
Voters in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District are going to the polls June 8 to vote on Measure C, a $348 million bond measure to pay for new technology, campus solar power, and other facility upgrades.
Despite budget cuts, class sizes in the Walnut Creek School District to remain the same.
The Las Lomas High community welcomes its new principal
The City Council is trying to make some tough choices about the budget but focused Tuesday night on programs they really want to save, including school crossing guards.
California's budget crisis may force Mt. Diablo Unified School District to nix funding for sports, which shifts the responsibility to private charity to keep them going this coming school year
High school instrumental music instructor Greg Brown's pink slip was recently rescinded, but he still worries about the how state budget cuts will affect the future of music education in Mt. Diablo Unified School District.
Two graduates of Las Lomas High tell what it was like to attend the Walnut Creek school while their father, Pat Lickiss, was the principal.They spoke at a celebration this past weekend to honor their father who is retiring after 17 years in this job.