The Biden administration is erasing $6.1 billion in federal student debt for 317,000 former attendees of The Art Institutes, a defunct for-profit chain of art colleges, officials announced Wednes...
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The Merced City Council voted unanimously to approve the annexation of the Virginia Smith Trust General Plan, according to the Merced County Office of Education. The annexation also received unan...
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University of California, Merced regents have approved the construction of a new medical education building on campus, according to the university. The regents gave final approval Wednesday and a...
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Fresno State faculty demonstrated Tuesday on campus about a week after California State University professors approved a strike if their demands for higher pay and other accommodations are not me...
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From Kern to San Joaquin County, an estimated 2.4 million Latinos live in the central San Joaquin Valley, where they make up an estimated 54.8% of the residents, according to … Click to Continu...
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In the second year fully back in school after remote learning, California school districts made negligible progress overall in reversing the steep declines in test scores that have lingered since...
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We are no longer live. Click on the video above to watch a replay of the Q&A. Between 2009 and 2019, Latino college enrollment increased by 48%, according to the … Click to Continue »
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Merced High School teacher Yer Lawson is grateful for being able to learn from the great teachers she had growing up in Merced County. Lawson has been able to pay … Click to Continue »
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Words like “crisis” and “chaos” were used to describe the current state of the Merced City School District School Board during Tuesday’s board meeting. And those words came from one …...
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The Merced Union High School District is making major upgrades to athletic facilities at each of its campuses throughout Merced County, including new swimming pools, tracks and artificial field t...
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UC Merced and Merced College are teaming up to build a new $100 million housing facility for community college and transfer students. UC Merced and Merced College leaders believe the … Click to...
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The paint has dried, the classrooms are furnished and the library shelves are stocked with books. Atwater Elementary School District is ready to open its new Juniper Elementary School. District �...
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What was it like when gigantic megalodons patrolled the oceans? What was on their menu and how did they interact with great white sharks as two of the most fearsome … Click to Continue »
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The Biden administration will forgive $39 billion in federal student loans, the U.S. Education Secretary said Friday, for more than 804,000 borrowers. The announcement comes two weeks after the S...
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President Joe Biden, whose $400 billion student loan forgiveness plan was struck down by the Supreme Court Friday, said his administration would pursue other measures to ease college debt. The �...
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The Supreme Court quashed President Joe Biden’s plan for student loan forgiveness Friday, a measure that could have offered tens of thousands in relief to some borrowers. In a 6-3 … Click to ...
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom typically has a lightning response to conservative critics or national decisions with consequences for the state. By the time the Supreme Court gutted federal abortio...
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California Democrats condemned the Supreme Court’s restriction of race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities Thursday. But the state’s voters banned race-aware admissions in publi...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday said universities and colleges could no longer use a form of race-conscious admissions, rejecting a decades-old precedent in affirmative action policy. Rather race s...
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The United States Supreme Court is expected, as soon as this week, to release its decision on whether President Joe Biden can forgive student loans with a plan that offers … Click to Continue �...
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The class of 2023 graduates were celebrated with commencement ceremonies s at high schools throughout Merced County on Thursday night. The Merced Union High School District honored more than 2,40...
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Merced College graduates took part Friday night in the school’s 60th commencement ceremony in front of a large crowd at Stadium ‘76. More than 1,700 students were part of Merced … Click to ...
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Two students from Merced County were awarded Fresno State’s top academic honors for the 2023 graduating class. Le Grand’s Joshua Heupel and Delhi’s Jonathan Moules were chosen from a group ...
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Merced College will hold its 60th commencement ceremony in Merced and its first commencement ceremony at the Los Banos campus next week, according to the college. For the first time, … Click to...
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One by one, UC Merced’s newest group of graduates made their way across the stage as they accepted their diplomas. The university held commencement ceremonies on Friday and Saturday, with … C...
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ABC30 is losing another on-air personality. And this reporter is planning to get completely out of television media. Alyssa Flores Johansen announced on social media Friday night that she is … ...
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Merced City School District principals and staff made two things clear to the school board during its Tuesday night meeting. First, they are grateful that the board fired superintendent Diana …...
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As concerns grow with the closure of Madera County’s only adult acute care hospital, a local lawmaker is making tweaks to a piece of legislation aimed at helping struggling hospitals … Click ...
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Former California State University chancellor Joseph I. Castro will resurface on Tuesday at Cal Poly, and likely find that much of the furor over a resignation linked to his handling … Click to...
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A scholarship fund connected to one of Merced County’s earliest families is being expanded to benefit more students from across the county who pursue higher education. Since its inception in �...
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