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# Malibu residents push to split from Santa Monica-Malibu school district
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/081104-story/
- Published: 2004-08-11T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:48:29.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Malibu, #archive-import

A group of Malibu residents is spearheading a formal push to break away from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. What it boils down to, supporters of the breakup say, is Malibu isn’t connected to Santa Monica by land, and there’s no longer any need for the two cities to share their schools. They also point out that if the district did split, Santa Monica wouldn’t have to share a $6 million annual contribution from City Hall.

A similar attempt to form a separate district was made in 1990, but apparently the plan lacked enough students or a sound economic plan.

So this week, Q-line wants to know “Is it time for Malibu to have its own school district? Why or why not?”

Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 p.m., and we’ll print your response in the weekend edition. Please limit your comments to a minute or less. It might help to think first about the wording of your response.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 11, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/081104.pdf?ref=smdp.com)