After nine weeks of summer break, nearly 40,000 students at 55 schools in the Stockton Unified School District returned to class on Thursday.
Though school was scheduled to start at 8 a.m., families began arriving at Spanos Elementary School in south Stockton as early as 7:30.
“This is going to be a fantastic year. We just know it,” Spanos Elementary Principal Sondra Knudsen said, addressing the crowd that had gathered before the school day began…