The district has struggled to bridge equity gaps in literacy over the last several years, with a 2022 data analysis by The Daily Californian finding that racial performance gaps in ...

Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Carol Smyth and director of ELA, literacy and library Julie Ritter proposed an ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...