🗞️ Riverside News- May 18, 2026
Monday Gazette: May 18, 2026 Hello Riverside, and Happy Monday! Still thinking about yesterday's ask: we want your
After the injunction on Measure O, RUSD defends its use of bond funds, while RAIT alleges a ‘bait-and-switch’ in the presentation of Measure O to the community.
The complaint alleges RUSD is improperly using over $115 million in Measure O funds to build new schools in Casa Blanca, the Eastside, and Highgrove and a campus for the STEM Academy.
Candidates share their vision for Area 1, Thoughts on Measure O
Candidates share their vision for Area 5, Thoughts on Measure O
November Election – School Board Candidates in Alvord
Thousands of UC Riverside students arrived in town this week as the 2022-23 school year began. After a couple of years limited by COVID restrictions, the campus admitted a record number of freshmen students with a total 37,262 – a 6.95% increase. UCR admitted the most first-year students as well as
Riverside’s CSDR football team follows up an amazing 2021-22 season with a 54-16 first game win as they have grown individually and as a team and Hollywood has noticed.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new state mandate earlier this month to require the COVID-19 vaccine for all students attending in-person learning.
Concerned residents and Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) board members alike are anticipating robust discussion at tonight’s board meeting as frustrations mount over funding for school improvements. Funding for much-needed improvement projects within RUSD comes from money allocated from Meas
The halls of high schools are finally filled with the sounds of energetic students who are, yet again, adjusting to a new normal. It has been one month since students across Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) returned to in-person learning. Campuses moved seamlessly from phases two and three o
As 12,000 elementary students prepare to head back to the classroom throughout Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) next week, district leadership says secondary students are not far behind. Starting Tuesday, March 9th, the 60 percent of RUSD families who selected the in-person model for the 202
In a unanimous vote of support, Riverside Unified School District’s Board of Education appointed Chief Academic Officer Renee Hill to succeed David Hansen, Ed.D., as superintendent beginning in July this year. Hill brings a career of nearly 40 years in education to the position, in both the public a
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