The Board of Education holds regular meetings every second and fourth Wednesday of the month. Click here for details. As supporting material for board agenda items are made available, they may be accessed through using this link.

This school year Fresno Unified School District is awarding 14, $600 college scholarships to Fresno Unified graduates as part of the scholarship fund through the newly formed FUSD Education Fund. A selection committee, including the high school counseling teams, scored more than 100 applications based on the student's commitment to education, community involvement, financial need, and career focus. A high school senior was selected from every high school and two "at-large" recipients were selected from the applications with the highest score. The FUSD Scholarship Fund is supported by the generous support of community organizations and employee donations through the recently created payroll deduction program. The 2009 FUSD Scholarship recipients are:

Fresno Unified School District hosted the first-ever high school girls lacrosse tournament on Saturday, May 16 at Sunnyside High School stadium. Blazing the trail for new athletic opportunities, Fresno Unified became the first district in the Central Section to start a high school girls lacrosse program. Seven FUSD high schools - Bullard, Edison, Fresno, Hoover, McLane, Roosevelt, and Sunnyside - competed. Fresno State also began a lacrosse program this year and has been instrumental in providing clinics and guidance to the high school program.
View Lacrosse Slideshow

The Fresno Unified School District Board of Education approved the Facilities Master Plan at its regularly scheduled board meeting April 29. The Facilities Master Plan will chart the district’s facilities efforts for the next 15 years to meet the needs of students throughout the district and is the result of a nearly two-year process by the Facilities Ad Hoc Advisory Committee (FAAC). Included in the document are plans for the construction of new schools, choice options in each high school attendance area, and creation of flexible facilities to support the district's work in preparing career ready graduates.
View the Facilities Master Plan

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell announced that Fresno Unified School District’s Baird Middle School, Computech Middle School, and Design Science High School were selected as 2009 California Distinguished Schools, an annual award that recognizes some of the state’s most exemplary public schools. "This recognition is a testament to the outstanding work of the students, staff, and parents at Baird, Computech, and Design Science High School," said FUSD Superintendent Michael Hanson. "We commend the continued efforts of these schools to prepare career ready graduates."
Fresno Unified School District schools have received 40 California Distinguished School awards since the program began in 1986. The selected middle and high schools represent about 10.9 percent of California's nearly 2,400 middle and high schools. Of those, only 341 schools met the eligibility criteria based on their student achievement and were chosen from 170 school districts in 46 counties. An awards ceremony honoring the Distinguished Schools will be held Friday, May 29 at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. The Disneyland Resort is a major corporate sponsor of the event.

The FUSD Board of Education adopted the school calendars for the 2009/10 and 2010/11 school years.
View the 2009/2010 school year calendar
View the 2010/2011 school year calendar

An overview of the Adopted Budget 2008-2009 for Fresno Unified School District is available for download at the following link: http://www.fresno.k12.ca.us/pdfs/Budget adoption 08-09.pdf.

The Superintendent’s Commission on Workplace Readiness and Career Technical Education is being led by a group of community and business leaders to examine the current delivery of career technical education in FUSD. Based on their research, analysis, and study, the commission is scheduled to bring forward recommendations on system-wide reform initiatives that will help achieve the mission of preparing Career Ready Graduates and define a best set of opportunities for business and community engagement that focuses on exposing students to the world of work. As the work of the Commission progresses, small group meetings with student and staff are being scheduled to gather specific input and feedback.

For more information on the work of the Commission, including meeting presentations, list of commissioners, research, data, and discussion board, please click here: www.fresnounified.org/dept/planning/careerprep/

Fresno Unified School District Board of Education established a Constituent Services Office to respond to the needs of parents and community members. Miguel Arias, the Constituent Services administrator, helps parents and community members to receive their requested information and guides them on the most effective route to address or resolve an issue. Fresno serves more than 73,000 students at 106 schools, and the Constituent Services Office helps to connect parents and community members with the information and resources to get the help they need swiftly. The Constituent Services Office can be reached at 457-3727.

2008-2009 Parent & Student Notification and Information Handbook
Every Student enrolled in Fresno Unified should receive a copy of the Parent Notification and Information handbook from school.
Download the handbook in PDF format:
English version
Spanish version
Hmong version