No cell phones at growing number of Bay Area campuses

Thursday marks the first day of school at the Mount Diablo Unified School District, which means hundreds of high school students on one East Bay campus will discover what it feels like to be cell-phone free, all day. 

Volunteers help beautify Oakland schools

About 300 volunteers are visiting 30 schools in the Oakland Unified School District this week to help clean up and prepare for students to come back to the classroom. 

UC Santa Cruz failed to accurately report crime data: state audit

A state audit found that UC Santa Cruz failed to accurately report crime data.The state auditor reviewed six institutions, including CSU Chico, Imperial Valley College, Mount Saint Mary's University, Orange Coast College and UC Santa Cruz.