The Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to approve an updated 2026 meeting calendar to include seven additional workshops. Trustee Amanda Vickers was absent.
“The workshops are really a chance for us to do a deep dive on a specific subject matter, which is a little different than our traditional board meeting,” board vice president Jesse Tweed said at the January 15 meeting. “It offers an opportunity to be transparent in our thinking and discussion, but the focus is for us to understand the material better.”
The board originally proposed to hold 12 meetings this year, three fewer than were scheduled for 2025. However, Trustee Dale Kinnear, at the December 18 meeting, pushed for the board to set dates for additional workshops at the beginning of the year to show the community that the board was willing to set aside time to learn how to best serve the district’s students…