Three public and private school teachers in Contra Costa County will be awarded $10,000 each
The private Dorris-Eaton School, which leases its Newell Avenue site from the Walnut Creek School District, will undergo seismic retrofitting to comply with state safety standards.
Elementaries in the Mount Diablo Unified and Walnut Creek school districts are named 2010 Honor Roll Scholar Schools by the California Business for Education Excellence Foundation.
Emma Schwartz, a Walnut Creek resident who attends school in Danville, is on a mission to raise money for a young woman in Malawi.
Every week, Walnut Creek Patch features a young person in our community who is simply extraordinary.
The results of the state's 2009-10 physical fitness test show that public school students in districts that serve Walnut Creek are in better shape on average than students elsewhere in the state.
Proceeds from sale benefit Japan earthquake and tsunami efforts.
But will letting first through fifth graders out at the same time lead to traffic tie-ups at or around elementary school campuses?
Former MDUSD teacher and Concord Assemblymember has taken her passion for education to Sacramento.
WCI deals with fight that put student in hospital, and the Walnut Creek School District becomes one of the few in the state that can actually give its teachers and staff raises.
Music education is once again threatened in this budget cycle, as MDUSD tries to manage a $21.9 million shortfall.
Students from Cal High and Northgate High face off in the finals of the Contra Costa Mock Trials Competition.
Former Las Lomas student Spencer Sharp puts together a rap honoring the two teens. Walnut Creek also remembers in other ways this weekend.
The Walnut Creek school will take on Miramonte High from Orinda in the legal competition.
But board cautions that more schools will close if Governor's budget proposals are not approved by voters in June, or a parcel tax is not voted in.
The mood was solemn and sad at times at Las Lomas High, but full of memories and stories.
World Famous Alexander String Quartet Gives Free Workshop and Performs at Las Lomas High School
Northgate High School hosts its first football game this evening under its new permanent lighting system.
The president of the board for PEAK, the East Bay's newest education foundation, explains how the group is getting serious about raising money for Walnut Creek public schools in the Northgate area.
Las Lomas High high doesn't have a film class, but it has a club of dedicated, talented young auteurs who shared their works at a film festival this week.
The Walnut Creek School Board will consider a new policy Monday to set guidelines for how teachers assign homework. It includes time limits and no weekend and holiday assignments. Will it make learning better for kids and their families?