West Contra Costa Unified School District said Thursday it's planning for Kennedy High School's school year to start on schedule on August 18. Several backup locations are already under consideration in case the campus itself isn't available.
Jeff Carter, the district's interim
West Contra Costa Unified School District will hold a community town hall meeting Thursday on the environmental testing that led to the closure of Kennedy High School, with officials from the state Department of Toxic Substances Control and the City of Richmond expected to take part.
WCCUSD's school
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5 trustee areas
West Contra Costa Unified School District said Thursday it's planning for Kennedy High School's school year to start on schedule on August 18. Several backup locations are already under consideration in case the campus itself isn't available.
Jeff Carter, the district's interim
West Contra Costa Unified School District will hold a community town hall meeting Thursday on the environmental testing that led to the closure of Kennedy High School, with officials from the state Department of Toxic Substances Control and the City of Richmond expected to take part.
WCCUSD's school
West Contra Costa Unified School District announced the closure of Kennedy High School to all staff and students on Monday, after preliminary soil-vapor tests found the chemical tetrachloroethylene, also known as PCE, under the campus.
In a letter to the Kennedy community, Superintendent Cheryl Cotton said the district received
West Contra Costa Unified School District's board voted unanimously Wednesday night to put a renewal of its longstanding parcel tax on the November ballot. Its own pollster told trustees that voter support currently falls short of the two-thirds threshold needed to win.
The board approved the resolution
A West Contra Costa Unified School District advisory committee toured two long-vacant school properties Monday evening before hearing new information about zoning changes that could significantly alter the value and development potential of both sites, then voted to table action.
The WCCUSD 7-11 Committee, a citizen panel charged
Thousands of Contra Costa Community College District students were unable to access their online coursework on Thursday after a hacking group took down Canvas, the learning platform used by the district's three colleges, due to a massive data breach affecting institutions worldwide.
The district posted a notice on
The West Contra Costa Unified School District will lose more than 2,000 students over the next six years, a demographic consultant told the school board Wednesday night, with Richmond high schools bearing the steepest declines while a shortage of new housing offers little prospect of recovery.
The projections, presented
