Editing Livingston, California (section)

== Schools ==
[[Livingston Union School District]] serves 2,400 children in and around Livingston.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lusd.k12.ca.us/index.cfm?fuseaction=menu&menu_id=1|title=Livingston Union School District|access-date=July 13, 2009}}</ref> The district operates three elementary schools, [[Campus Park Elementary School]], [[Selma Herndon Elementary School]], and [[Yamato Colony Elementary School]]. Most elementary-age children are within walking distance of each school. All three elementary schools offer some form of [[Dual language|two-way immersion]] instruction designed to build proficiency in both [[English language|English]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]]. [[Livingston Middle School]] serves grades 6–8.

[[Livingston High School (California)|Livingston High School]] is part of [[Merced Union High School District]] and serves all of Livingston as well as students from the nearby towns of [[Ballico, California|Ballico]] and [[Cressey, California|Cressey]]. In years past, most students from Delhi attended Livingston High School until Delhi opened its own high school, Delhi High School, in 1998. Livingston High School's foreign language department offers classes in [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]].

[[Longview Mennonite School]] serves many [[Mennonite]] students in the area.

In the 1990s, Livingston schools were at the center of a controversy involving [[Sikh]] students' right to wear ceremonial daggers known as [[kirpan]]s under clothing while at school. In 1995, a Federal appellate court affirmed the right to wear the kirpan if certain safety precautions are followed.<ref>[http://openjurist.org/36/f3d/1102/cheema-v-h-thompson ''Cheema v. Thompson''], 67 F.3d 883 (9th Cir. 1995).</ref>