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PLEASANTON – In July, the Pleasanton Unified School District (PUSD) Board voted unanimously to place a $395 million bond on the ballot for November.

The Pleasanton Unified School District Board of Trustees will be seeing two new faces after this election cycle is over -- one of whom is already guaranteed the position. This will be the first district-based election for PUSD.

Now is the time to move forward on these imperative school facilities projects. The $395 million bond is effectively the only way Pleasanton Unified School District can accomplish that. Vote Yes on Measure I.

Thomas S. Hart Middle School in Pleasanton has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a National Blue Ribbon School for 2022.

Pleasanton residents will be voting on a school bond measure in November for the third time in the last seven years. But the question remains: Are the facility improvements worth the associated property tax increase?

A total of seven schools in the Tri-Valley were recognized as National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, including Hart Middle School in Pleasanton.

The Weeklys candidate forum for the PUSD Trustee Area 2 contested election on Sept. 20 has been canceled due to candidate unavailability. We are working with our partners in the hopes of securing a new date in time.

The Pleasanton school board approved a reorganization plan earlier this month for the Information Technology Department that will see tech specialists assigned to multiple schools and work off a dispatch model.

Yet with many students thinking the most important difference this school year is the new California laws mandating later start times, that is far from the only significant change for the Pleasanton Unified School District...

The Pleasanton Unified School District will be receiving $14.35 million in new combined funding coming in from the recently enacted state budget, which district staff will not have to account for in its adopted budget.