SMC — Joe and Nancy Owens will never forget how scholarships helped them achieve fulfilling careers and lives. Joe was the son of a Texas tenant farmer, the youngest of eight children.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — There are no sacred cows. People will lose their jobs. Staff laid out the grim budget reality to the Board of Education at a special meeting Saturday that proposed trimming $2 million a year out of the district’s expenditures, primarily through reductions in staff and faculty and inc
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Students and parents rallied at Thursday’s Board of Education meeting in support of a popular photography teacher who left his class after controversial student photographs were found on a school server.
SUNSET PARK — The adminstration at John Adams Middle School took a day better known for generic cards and sugar candies and transformed it into an instructional moment meant to inspire students to think more broadly about the term “love.
SAMOHI — Environmentally-conscious students here are close to completing the transformation of a gas-guzzling VW Beetle into one that runs entirely on electricity.
JAMS — Three juveniles were arrested on a felony charge of armed robbery Wednesday evening after allegedly threatening a younger child with a knife and taking his cell phone and some petty cash.
SMC — After more than 20 years of talk, City Hall and Santa Monica College are finally taking action. The SMC Board of Trustees on Tuesday entered into an agreement with city officials to build a $12.
VIRGINIA AVENUE PARK — School officials praised hard-working teachers, dedicated parents and a “unique” relationship with City Hall for the continued success of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District despite budgetary pressures from the state and other outside forces.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Web developers and school district staff are begging parents and teachers’ patience with a web-based application meant to provide easy access to student information that has resulted in missing grades and faulty transcripts.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Parents have the right to review records detailing a Santa Monica High School teacher’s violation of the school district’s sexual harassment policy, an appeals court ruled this week.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — The Board of Education formally accepted a controversial policy Thursday that reduces the amount of punishment levied on a student for violating school rules on alcohol and drug use.
SAMOHI — Officials from Santa Monica High School, the school district and police department took heat from parents Tuesday night who gathered to hear what was being done to keep their children safe in the wake of fights that broke out on and off campus in preceding weeks.
