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    Sunday, December 28th 2025

    Today's e-Edition

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    Education

    Featured

    Fired Stanford researcher gets probation for altering cancer data with insults like ‘doctor too stupid’

    A tour was given to the media at the Stanford Outpatient Center on Tuesday showing their state-of-the-art medical facility located in Redwood City. The outpatient center opens its doors on February 17th. (Konstandinos Goumenidis / Daily News)
    Naheed Mangi, 70, was sentenced 12 years after her crime of conviction, which involved hacking into a Stanford database and changing patient data.
    A tour was given to the media at the Stanford Outpatient Center on Tuesday showing their state-of-the-art medical facility located in Redwood City. The outpatient center opens its doors on February 17th. (Konstandinos Goumenidis / Daily News)
    Students walk through campus at Cal State San Marcos on May 6, 2025. (Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters)

    Even more Cal State campuses will automatically admit eligible students under a new state law

    This 2023 illustration shows what astronomers expected exoplanet VHS 1256b might look like. Now, evidence from UCSC researcher Xi Zhang suggests the planet’s atmosphere is much more turbulent, with large dust clouds instead of the organized bands shown here. (Credit — NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI))

    ‘Super-Jupiter’ exoplanet is not so Jupiter-like, UCSC study finds

    Latest Headlines

    • A person speaks during a West Contra Costa Unified School District meeting on budget cuts at Lovonya DeJean Middle School in Richmond, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The district says it needs to make severe cuts to remain fiscally solvent. Teachers say the cuts are going to harm students and are unnecessary. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

      A top West Contra Costa school leader announces retirement

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      Federal judge finds California parents have right to receive gender information

    • Professor Alexa Koenig, faculty director of the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley, at her home in San Rafael, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. Koenig led the team that did the research which helped document allegations of beatings, sexual abuse and inhumane conditions at an El Salvadoran prison that held Venezuelan immigrants sent there by the Trump administration. CBS News is drawing criticism for pulling a “60 Minutes” segment highlighting the research. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)

      What ‘60 Minutes’ didn’t air: UC Berkeley research on alleged abuse at El Salvador mega-prison

    K-12 Education

    Students walk through campus at Cal State San Marcos on May 6, 2025. (Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters)

    Even more Cal State campuses will automatically admit eligible students under a new state law

    California State University last year launched a pilot program to attract more students to the university system and to steer some to campuses that have been struggling with enrollment declines.
    • South Bay school district to pay $5.75 million amid claims teacher impregnated 15-year-old student, forced abortion

    Higher Education

    A tour was given to the media at the Stanford Outpatient Center on Tuesday showing their state-of-the-art medical facility located in Redwood City. The outpatient center opens its doors on February 17th. (Konstandinos Goumenidis / Daily News)

    Fired Stanford researcher gets probation for altering cancer data with insults like ‘doctor too stupid’

    Naheed Mangi, 70, was sentenced 12 years after her crime of conviction, which involved hacking into a Stanford database and changing patient data.
    • Saratoga leaders reflect on 2025 and look ahead to 2026

    • San José City College names new president

    School Boards & Measures

    Oakland Unified School District Board of Education during the public comments portion of a meeting in Oakland. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)

    Oakland school board approves $103 million in cuts, but details still unclear

    The approved cuts come amid several months of financial crisis within the district, which was once projected to run out of cash as early as this fall.
    • Investigation into removal of superintendent reveals misuse of public funds, Santa Clara County Office of Ed says

    • Oakland superintendent says ‘urgent’ situation requires painful cuts

    • East San Jose organizers rally to clean up MACSA site

    Mosaic

    Stacks of extra copies of Irvington High School’s newspaper, The Voice, sit in a classroom on Oct. 27, 2025. More students shun traditional media like newspapers in favor of social media. 

(Sophie Luo / Mosaic)

    Opinion: The way Gen Z consumes news has changed. Journalism needs to change with it

    If traditional media put professionally reported stories on social media, they’ll reach a wider audience...
    • Despite no-win season Overfelt flag football team stays enthusiastic

    • Drama — the stage kind — is thriving at South Bay high schools

    • San Jose art gallery shares powerful message about gentrification

    Stanford University

    Hoover Tower rises above the Stanford University campus on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, in Stanford, Calif.

    Filipino tech entrepreneur Diosdado “Dado” Banatao died at the age of 79

    Diosdado "Dado" Banatao, a Silicon Valley tech developer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist died on Dec....
    • Fired Stanford researcher gets probation for altering cancer data with insults like ‘doctor too stupid’

    • What to know about norovirus as Bay Area holiday gatherings ramp up

    • Judge denies motion to exclude term ‘genocide’ from Stanford felony vandalism trial

    High School Sports

    King's Academy’s Boss Mhoon (24) attempts to save an out of bounds ball over AIMS College Prep’s Amr Aldhanebi (2) in the second period of their game during the Damian Lillard Classic at Oakland High School in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 26, 2025. King's Academy defeated AIMS 93-25. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

    Photos: King’s Academy vs. AIMS College Prep in Damian Lillard Classic

    King's Academy’s Claxton Ladine finished with 11 three-point baskets for a total of 35 points.
    • Prep spotlight: St. Ignatius staking its claim among Bay Area basketball’s elite

    • Bay Area News Group girls athlete of the week: Chiemi Wong, Gunderson basketball

    • Bay Area News Group boys athlete of the week: Brady Clugage, Archbishop Mitty basketball

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