South Colonie Central School District
At the Oct. 20 meeting, a statement for the board said it is 'deeply troubled' by a video of students using racist language.
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Howell Township Public School District
A swatting call targeted Ramtown School on Oct. 7, prompting a police response and a lockdown while staff secured students. The superintendent said officers arrived within moments and the police investigation was still underway at the Oct. 14 meeting.
Sutter Union High School District
The board agenda schedules a closed-session discussion of initiating litigation in one potential case concerning adolescent social-media addiction and personal-products liability. The agenda does not report a decision or identify the potential defendants or claims.
Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District
Alaska DEED’s 2025–26 review found KGBSD out of compliance on 20 indicators covering ESEA programs, including Title I, Title II, Title IV and federal fiscal requirements. The district submitted its response on September 28, describing corrective steps and more than 60 supporting documents; DEED’s acceptance is not stated in the record.
Oakland Unified School District
OUSD is seeking approval for a $352,185.90 violence-intervention and prevention agreement at Rudsdale Continuation High School, running October 19, 2026 through June 30, 2027. The proposal funds two full-time roles—a Violence Interruption Specialist and a Life Coach—with safety planning, conflict mediation, and individualized coaching for at least 10 students.
Washington Township School District (Gloucester County)
District officials confirmed a mold issue at Glen Rock Elementary after a high test result in room 25. A room 9 retest was clear, but permanent humidity fixes are still being developed; officials described dehumidifiers as a temporary measure.
Franklin-McKinley Elementary School District
The board approved a five-year renewal for Rocketship Mosaic Elementary, allowing the charter to continue operating under a new five-year term. District staff said monitoring will continue through monthly submissions, including budget and teacher-credentialing information.
Smithtown Central School District
At the October 13, 2026 meeting the superintendent read a statement about a recent Suffolk County Police investigation of an alleged child endangerment incident and the district's delayed communication with the community. The brief says a letter to the school community would follow.
Newburgh Enlarged City School District
The outside auditor told the board on Oct. 13, 2026 that the audit will get clean opinions but notes a material weakness in accounting records. About $53 million of adjusting entries were needed; two entries were 75% of that.
The board will consider a first reading of a new Seizure Safe Schools policy. The draft calls for staff training to recognize seizures, respond appropriately, and administer prescribed medication, plus prominently displayed seizure first-aid information.
Clifton schools are launching a communitywide effort to teach students and families how to travel safely by bicycle, e-bike, scooter and skateboard. Plans include hands-on riding clinics, helmet distribution, traffic-safety lessons and police-supervised rides.
Willows Unified School District
Willows Unified’s 2025–26 unaudited financial report records classroom compensation at 51.27%, below the 55% threshold shown for unified districts. It calculates a $687,555.55 deficiency and warns that future state apportionments may be affected for districts not exempt from the requirement.
Claremont says it cannot currently provide all required special-education services because it lacks enough qualified staff. The superintendent said families were notified and that the district will review each student’s missed services and provide compensatory support when needed.
Hicksville Union Free School District
The Class of 2026 graduation rate was 89.7%, up from 84.9% for 2025 and below the 91.4% peak for 2024. English learners were 24 of the 30 dropouts. Their graduation rate rose to 47.2%.
Half Hollow Hills Central School District
After the Town of Huntington approved Cornerstone Melville, Superintendent John O'Farrell said it is a serious risk if new homes bring many students while developers pay reduced PILOT payments instead of full taxes. The town's Melville zone allows about 1,500 homes, roughly 9% more homes in the district. The district says it will keep asking for a slower approval pace.
Anchorage School District reported structural roof needs at Tudor Elementary and Wendler Middle School; the affected areas are considered safe to occupy with snow-load controls. Engineers recommend keeping snow below 20 pounds per square foot while permanent structural improvements are planned.
Colebrook’s September 15 minutes report that the State Board accepted a finding that the bullying investigation was not thorough and fair; the superintendent said State Board-recommended districtwide training was scheduled for the next day. The family also requested $40,000 in attorney fees and warned it may take the matter to Superior Court if denied.
Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District
The board approved a contingency-fee legal-services agreement to pursue litigation against Instructure over a Canvas data breach. The district said it does not know what personal information attackers may have obtained, leaving a potential risk of later identity or credit fraud involving students; attorneys are paid only if the case succeeds.
Bay Shore Union Free School District
At the September 23 and October 1, 2026 meetings, residents asked the board to hold a public work session on how the district protects students from abuse. One speaker said an agenda request was sent on September 10 and the district clerk confirmed no date was set. Speakers also said the district's child abuse policy (9620) was last updated in 2015. Board members said they were hearing the request but gave no date.
Bloomfield Township School District
Bloomfield publishes its board agendas and minutes only on BoardDocs, an outside platform. A resident with a browser can read them there, but BoardDocs answers automated requests with an error on both of its addresses, so no agenda, no set of minutes and no attachment from any of the board's meetings can be collected and stored for this page. The district's own website carries budget presentations, contracts, policies, public notices and state reports, which is what this page is built from, and its YouTube channel has not posted a board recording since 2015. So the meeting record here is what the board published about its meetings, not what the board decided at them.
Brick Township Public School District
New Jersey requires every district to publish a user-friendly budget, a plain-language summary of where school money comes from and goes. The file behind Brick's own User Friendly Budget link is the 2021-22 summary, showing a proposed local tax levy of $115,659,937. The levy the board actually adopted for 2026-2027 is $142,640,431, about 23 percent higher. A parent using the district's link sees figures five budget years old.
Collingswood Public School District
Two school nurses told the board on May 18, 2026 that Collingswood has not had a nurse in every building since the 2023-24 school year, that the vacancy at William P. Tatem Elementary would not be filled and that the Garfield nurse post had gone, and that they are pulled between buildings because there are not enough substitute nurses. One described her daily medication rounds and pupils in her care with diabetes, a feeding tube and refractory epilepsy. In September, after the school year started, a district employee who is also a Tatem parent told the board the school now has a nurse about two and a half days a week and that the principal often fills in, and asked who is forecasting this. Another parent said the same night that the largest elementary school having a nurse only part of the week is less than it had before. The district hired one nurse in September, for Thomas Sharp.
The district disclosed that Morristown High School’s backup generator did not start during a summer power outage, and the pool began to flood. Staff contained the water before it reached the school’s main floor; the meeting did not report whether the generator was repaired or tested afterward.
Morris School District replaced Hillcrest School’s boiler-room electrical panel and main-office sub-panel during summer 2026. The district says the work eliminated a single-point-of-failure risk that threatened an outage across an entire wing, replacing obsolete, unserviceable components with modern, code-compliant equipment.
Rush-Henrietta Central School District
On Sept. 23 and 24, 2026, two fights happened at Rush-Henrietta Senior High School. In the second, one student was hurt and a student let in someone who was not allowed in the building. A staff member thought they heard a gunshot, so the school went into lockdown for about 40 minutes. The Sheriff's Office says no shots were fired. The district added security guards, counselors and Sheriff's deputies.
Raymore-Peculiar R-II School District
The board approved a districtwide emergency-radio amplifier system for $894,390.38, plus a 5% contingency. Audits found all 14 education facilities failed emergency-radio tests, leaving first responders struggling to transmit inside buildings; installation is planned building by building, with completion targeted by mid-2027.
Iowa City Community School District
A fatal accident during Borlaug Elementary’s School of the Wild field trip at MacBride Nature Recreation Center killed fifth-grade student Ahmed Osman and teacher Hannah Jorgensen. The board recognized the deaths but did not describe the circumstances, an investigation, or any safety changes in this meeting.
On Sept. 24 the district said it was told in writing by the state homeland security and emergency services division (Nov. 18, 2025 and Feb. 27, 2026) that FEMA recovery money could not pay to demolish the former Staley Elementary. It says a recent FEMA letter appears to say something different, and it has asked the state to clarify.
Raymore-Peculiar R-II School District
The board approved safety film for entries and windows throughout the district’s K–12 buildings. District staff said the safety committee had evaluated the measure for six to eight months and ranked it among the district’s top five safety and security options.
Hempstead Union Free School District
The Sept 23, 2026 agenda says the board will be asked to accept and adopt the State Monitor's Three-Year Academic Improvement and Financial Plans for 2026-27 through 2028-29, as presented by State Monitor Dr. William H. Johnson, and to let the superintendent carry them out. Minutes are not yet posted, so the result is not confirmed.
Oakland Unified School District
The Board approved a one-year, $671,000 agreement with Family Violence Law Center for Gender-Based Violence Specialists at Oakland High School, Madison Park Academy, Dewey Academy, Oakland Technical High School, and Ralph J. Bunche Academy. The agreement runs September 24, 2026, through September 24, 2027, and provides prevention, crisis support, case management, referrals, and weekly trauma-informed groups.
Oakland Unified School District
OUSD proposed raising its Invo Healthcare contract ceiling from $70,000 to $8.27 million for unchanged intensive outpatient mental-health services through June 30, 2029. The district says more than 400 students have mental-health services in their IEPs, and its own staffing cannot provide the intensive support needed by the students Invo would serve.
Oakland Unified School District
The California Department of Education found OUSD missed the required 60-day complaint-response and 20-day appeal-response deadlines in three Uniform Complaint Procedure matters involving allegations of discrimination based on nationality, race or ethnicity, and religion. The September 23 agenda scheduled discussion of district corrective actions; the procedural findings do not establish that the underlying discrimination allegations were substantiated.
Oakland Unified School District
At a September 23 special meeting, the Board was scheduled to consider a one-year agreement of up to $671,000 for one Gender-Based Violence Specialist at each of Oakland High School, Madison Park Academy, Dewey Academy, Oakland Technical High School, and Ralph J. Bunche Academy. Specialists would provide prevention, crisis support, case management, referrals, and weekly trauma-informed groups; each would maintain a caseload of at least 10 affected students.
At its Sept. 22 meeting, the board reviewed proposed revisions to its restraint-and-isolation policy to align it with updated state law; the transcript does not show a vote adopting the revisions. During public comment, a parent reported 348 restraint/isolation incidents in the previous school year, involving 41 restrained students and 35 isolated students, with injuries to students and staff.
Gloucester Township School District
At the September 21, 2026 meeting a parent described a kindergarten child being put on a school bus on the first day of school instead of going to after-school care. The board president confirmed she had not been notified. Board members used the exchange to ask for a clear rule on when the superintendent must tell the board about a serious child-safety incident, one member saying it needs to be sooner. No policy was adopted at the meeting.
Marshalltown Community School District
Marshalltown CSD is moving employee criminal-history records from a Google Drive location to encrypted storage kept in a locked cabinet and closet accessible only to HR staff. The district said an internal audit found that technology personnel could also access the Drive where the records were stored.
At the September 16 meeting, a Hazel Valley teacher and several family members reported insufficient paraeducator support for students with disabilities, including one parent’s report that her nonverbal daughter was bitten again after a one-to-one aide was no longer assigned. Speakers also warned of supervision gaps, elopement risks and missed IEP services; these were public testimony, not findings by the board.
Montclair Public School District
A September district presentation says the New Jersey Department of Education identified Montclair for significant disproportionality in discipline of Black students with disabilities. State data showed this group’s risk of total disciplinary removals was 4.74 times the comparison group’s in 2022–23, 5.72 times in 2023–24, and 3.42 times in 2024–25.
Berkeley Unified School District
Berkeley USD said it is investigating a lead-paint concern at John Muir Elementary, has engaged an environmental consultant and qualified industry professionals, and is communicating with families while determining next steps.
Riverhead Central School District
Board members said the two-year agreement with the Town of Riverhead for two police school resource officers (SROs) has ended. Under it the district paid half of salaries and benefits. Trustees said the district budgeted $200,000, which they said equals about 58% of the cost, and that town board members publicly said the district did not budget. The board said it remains committed to the program and will keep talking with the town.
South Huntington Union Free School District
The State Comptroller reviewed 2,878 district credit-card purchases ($196,039) from July 2022 to October 2023. It found missing receipts, purchases by unauthorized users, unnecessary meal purchases, poor fuel-card oversight, and claims paid before audit. It made 16 recommendations. District officials generally disagreed.
Belton High School found mold in several classrooms, and three rooms were cleared for deep cleaning after testing showed elevated levels; the school also temporarily closed its kitchen during testing and remediation. The district reported cleaning about 74 classrooms, discarding most kitchen food, and expanding testing and preventive cleanup; it said air tests were within compliance.
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