Officials from the California Department of Education (CDE) and leaders from the DiCaprio Foundation will be at Glen Park Elementary this week to congratulate the school for being a trailblazer in California’s Blueprint for Environmental Literacy.

On International Walk and Roll to School Day, Dianne Feinstein Elementary students and families will be joined by Mayor Ed Lee and Interim Superintendent Myong Leigh and Rec and Parks Director Phil Ginsburg as they walk to school.

Lafayette Elementary School has been recognized as a 2016 National Blue Ribbon School by the US Department of Education, along with 33 other California public schools and 4 private schools.

Bryant Elementary will be receiving 3,000 new books, plus 300 Spanish/English bilingual titles for the school’s main libraries.

More than 40 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) will be on hand to provide high schoolers with information -- and even offer admission and scholarships on the spot to qualified seniors.

Today, the California Department of Education released the second year of test results for students who took the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), the computer­ adaptive tests and performance tasks based on based on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics.

Starting this school year, 37,000 SFUSD students will get breakfast and lunch for free without having to fill out paperwork.

This is the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Student Nutrition Services’ annual announcement regarding the policy for providing free and reduced-price meals for children served under the National School Lunch Program and/or School Breakfast Program. Each school has a copy of the policy, which may be reviewed on request.

A new report from SRI Education on SFUSD’s Science, Technology, Engineer and Math (STEM) Learning Initiative shows SFUSD’s eighth grade students ahead of peers in other school districts when it comes to math performance.

Superintendent Richard A. Carranza announced today that he has accepted a preliminary offer from the Houston Independent School District Board of Education to lead the 215,000 student Texas school district. The Houston Independent School District is the seventh largest in the nation.