As educators, elected officials and other civic leaders seek more data-driven solutions, they are discovering problematic corners in a complex portrait of youth wellbeing in Santa Monica.
Recent figures show
The rift between Board of Education member Oscar de la Torre and Mayor Kevin McKeown is over. Or is it?
De la Torre this month voted to approve a Santa
The Santa Monica-Malibu school district is considering joining a different trust fund for employee retirement benefits.
Members of the local Board of Education earlier this month generally agreed with the
Is a student who attends summer school better off than one who is invited but doesn’t?
That was one of the fundamental questions explored by the local Board of
An infestation of fleas at Roosevelt Elementary School forced classes to relocate and led to multiple rounds of pest control, not to mention more than a few bites.
The combination
The Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation doesn't want to be tracking down last-minute cash at the end of the school year to reach its goal.
After falling short of
The consultant hired to oversee hundreds of millions of dollars in bond money for the Santa Monica-Malibu school district will make $420,000 in the first year of a 3-year
The local Board of Education already reviewed data on how Santa Monica-Malibu students fared on new state tests and how their success rates varied along racial lines, a subject of
Leadership students at Santa Monica High School were trying to figure out how to raise breast cancer awareness on campus.
They knew that their peers had mobilized in droves for
You're not going to find many plastic bags, paper napkins or one-use water bottles in students' lunch boxes at Edison and Will Rogers elementary schools.
The Santa
