District makes plans to better integrate technology in classroom.
It's a performance-cum-fund-raiser for Northgate High instrumental music programs.
Controversy continues over fees assessed to MDUSD volunteer Alicia Minyen, who sees 'red flags' in some projects funded under Measure C.
Statement on district website takes note of schools that made leaps in state test scores.
New stats cite Mount Diablo Unified School District and Walnut Creek School District.
Walnut Creek School District and Mount Diablo USD are cited for 'failing to make adequate progress.'
Theme is "Honoring Emergency Personnel" for 10th anniversary of 9-11.
Contra Costa Times article decried MDUSD's 'dismal reputation' in making public records available in case of Bond Oversight Committee member.
Walnut Creek Patch features a young person in our community who is simply extraordinary.
Patch pokes at the statistics for Northgate and Las Lomas high schools.
Kathleen Scott, the new principal at Walnut Heights Elementary, prepares for first-grade class sizes. School starts Aug. 23.
Former Principal Barbara Armstrong takes over temporarily; Kevin Collins has become the chief business official for the Walnut Creek School District.
STAR scores increased for East Bay students, though an achievement gap persists between white and Asian students and their black and Latino peers.
Eighteen-year-old's last dive took the three-meter springboard trophy.
A new assault on bullying at schools begins with a conversation. The National School Boards Association promotes a new toolkit.
That's their record this fall — as projected by the Cal Preps website.
With this column, Walnut Creek Patch features a young person in our community who is simply extraordinary.
Plans are revved for the first annual Las Lomas Car Classic.
Send in your nominations so that Walnut Creek Patch can feature your favorite Whiz Kid.
With the school year over, a Walnut Creek mother reflects on how she saw school kids' hearts and minds awakened by appreciating the works of the great masters.
Nearly 2,000 people gathered at the DeKlotz Stadium to recognize the graduates of 2011!
Linda Hutcherson has accepted a new position in the Mount Diablo Unified School District.
Long-time Las Lomas English teacher challenged her students to write and think better.
Walnut Creek Intermediate's representative in the National Spelling Bee is a native Russian speaker.
A mortgage banker turned reptile advocate gives a presentation on reptiles at Walnut Creek Intermediate School
For the upcoming school year, students entering seventh through 12th grade will need proof of a whooping cough booster shot.
Every week Walnut Creek Patch features a young person in our community who is simply extraordinary.
Hey teens, we're creating a photo gallery of Walnut Creek senior ball couples. Send us your photo and we'll enter you in a drawing to win a prom-themed gift basket.
The board deliberated for more than two hours before delivering a decision that left parents angry, disappointed, philosophical.
A Parkmead Elementary school parent asks the superintendent and governing board to seriously consider their proposal to move Kathleen Scott to Walnut Heights Elementary.
At Tuesday's meeting, the school board also voted to use bond money to upgrade the district's aging high schools.
Parents at Parkmead Elementary School had previously complained about the transfer of their principal to another school and about the "closed-door process" of the board's decision making.
The Walnut Creek school board held a special closed door meeting Friday to discuss which principals will work at which schools in the next school year.
Relax, Walnut Creek parents—and Realtors—our home values are safe. Once again, Walnut Creek public schools scored 'excellent' in the highly-watched API scores.
MDUSD is looking at how other school districts are working with cities, such as Richmond, to raise money to help its schools.
Whether you are wary about the usefulness or safety of vaccines, your choices are limited. A new state law requires that all 7th through 12th graders be vaccinated with the "Tdap"--pertussis booster-- when they start the new 2011-12 school year.
Reports of a settlement between neighbors and Northgate High and its athletic boosters over the football stadium lights.
Diane Dias is one of 20 teachers in Contra Costa nominated for county teacher of the year.
Last spring, the Walnut Creek School District adopted a new policy to bring sanity to children's nightly homework routine. The district wants to know how this policy is working for you and your kids.