3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (688+ words) Why is four-year college tuition so high in America? William Bennett, President Reagan’s secretary of education, offered his hypothesis in 1987. In a New York Times op-ed titled “Our Greedy Colleges,” he argued that colleges were able to raise tuition because…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (697+ words) Residents and visitors strolling along the Benicia shoreline may recognize “Neptune’s Daughter,” a sculpture depicting a woman cradling a pelican. Its creator, Benicia artist Lisa Reinertson, says that when she gazes at the woman, she thinks of the next generations…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (645+ words) Hundreds of runners, walkers and families gathered at Kaiser Permanente’s Vacaville Medical Center Saturday for a morning that put health and wellness into motion. The inaugural Kaiser Permanente Village Run 5K, produced with GivJoi, kicked off the day, followed by a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (157+ words) Editor’s note: The author is an 11th-grade student in Vacaville. The first weeks of a new school year are supposed to be about a fresh start. New classes, new teachers, new goals. For us students, back-to-school means reconnecting with friends,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (353+ words) The first day of school brought a familiar energy to Vacaville Christian Schools on Thursday, as hundreds of students and staff filled the early kindergarten, elementary, middle school, and high school campuses and headed back to classrooms. The excitement followed…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (547+ words) Editor’s note: Danette Mitchell’s column appears on Sundays in the print edition of the Reporter. When I first saw the headline, “Detroit Public Schools to Pay High School Students $100 a Week and Middle School Students $50 for Perfect Attendance,” my initial…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (370+ words) The Vacaville Unified School District announced Tuesday that Buckingham Collegiate Charter Academy has maintained its position as the No. 1 high school in Vacaville and No. 3 high school in the Vallejo Metropolitan Area, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2026–2027 Best High Schools…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (225+ words) Women who are the primary wage earners for their families and seek financial assistance to continue their education or receive training, can now for financial assistance through the Soroptimist Live Your Dream: Education and Training Awards for Women. The local…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (518+ words) Although it’s Christi Glasco’s first year as principal of Federal Terrace Elementary School, it wasn’t her first time seeing many of the smiling faces who walked through the doors on the first day of school Monday. Glasco was the former…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (484+ words) The Vacaville Unified School District Governing Board will take up two money-related proposals at its Aug. 20 meeting, including increasing developer fees to the state maximum and raising the monthly compensation for board members by nearly five times its current amount....