Attending school board meetings and talking with education experts have their value, but there’s no beating visiting classrooms, chatting with students and teachers, and seeing up close what and how the kids are learning.

I had some pretty interesting classroom visits the past week that reinforced that importance for me as an education reporter of going back to school as often as possible.

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First-grade teacher Denise Deghi will travel to the Bahamas on a well-deserved trip.

It’s not for vacation. She actually will still be teaching her students all the way here at the San Mateo Park Math and Science Magnet School.

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School districts are starting to come out with numbers showing how much the state’s budget woes would hurt local education.

The Jefferson Elementary School District board, for instance, is scheduled Monday to consider a list of possible budget-reduction measures.

In the South San Francisco Unified School District, Superintendent Barbara Olds there has given these chilling prospects:

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