In a statement this week, the Pajaro Valley Unified School District corrected earlier statements that a contractor charged with child molestation and briefly employed by the district had no interaction with its students.
The Campaign for Organic and Regenerative Agriculture held a rally on a field behind MacQuiddy Elementary School encouraging all farms near schools in Watsonville to switch to organic and stop using pesticides.
The campus was damaged in last year's Pajaro River levee breach and subsequent flooding, with students attending Lakeview Middle School since. The damage included mud and debris strewn throughout campus, warped linoleum floors and mold starting to emerge in classrooms.
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A teachers' union and community groups in Monterey County have sued agriculture officials and state regulators over the use of pesticides near schools.
A lawsuit filed April 4 against farms and county and state agencies allege that the approval of pesticide use near three schools in North Monterey County is disproportionately harming those
A coalition of groups representing local teachers, farmworkers, environmental activists and labor organizations filed a lawsuit against Monterey County and state regulatory agencies over the decision to allow the use of pesticides near schools in the Pajaro Valley.
The groups are demanding that the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and the Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner end what they call is the illegal practice of disregarding the health of Latino schoolchildren, farmworkers and community members in the restricted materials permitting process.