The statewide switch, more than 65 years ago, to the present 12th-grade graduation system dates to 1950, and depending on who you talk to, it was either painful or not so much. Up to that year, ...

More than 1,300 Cleveland high school seniors who flunked the state graduation exam will fail to get a diploma this spring. District officials say about 43 percent of the more than 3,000 seniors ...

May 29—The pomp and circumstance of graduation returns to schools around the Yuba-Sutter-Colusa region as in-person ceremonies return this year. A few schools in the region have already held ...

Commencement at this Santa Ana school was a serious ordeal. Boys had to wear ties. Girls’ dresses required shoulder straps at least 2 inches wide. Families brought balloons and flowers and decorated ...