SMMUSD HDQTRS — The Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation will have to reorganize itself from the top down if it expects to raise enough money to pay for programs at all of the district’s schools.
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY ¬ó An analysis of the Santa Monica Police Department after the exit of its former chief shows an well-run organization with some structural and communications problems that have yet to be addressed.
SAMOHI —There were bake sales, button sales and even Viking horn beanie sales. But they couldn’t make up the $90,000 deficit that the Santa Monica High School band program amassed over the last three years.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Despite vigorously denying he gave one of his horses an illegal performance-enhancing mixture, trainer Doug O’Neill was suspended 45 days — a ban that won’t take effect until after his superstar colt, I’ll Have Another, tries to win the Triple Crown.
MONTANA AVE — It’s not uncommon for teenagers to rebel against adults and institutions that they deem “unfair.” What’s more unusual, however, is seeing the fruits of that rebellion spread across the walls of an art gallery.
LOS ANGELES — Flames, explosions, sophisticated soundtracks, slapstick comedy with harmonizing hillbillies. What started as a typical municipal dispute over public transportation ended up getting a heavy dose of Hollywood.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — A change in state law will alter the provision of mental health services to students in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District next school year, costing the district more money and altering the kinds of services it will be able to provide.
Seventeen years ago, two men met on the side of Pacific Coast Highway to discuss the future. That day, Al Friedenberg had been offered the principal position at Grant Elementary School and was driving along PCH to his home in Thousand Oaks.
SMMUSD HDQTRS Students in the Santa Monica- Malibu Unified School District will be getting to school a little differently this month. May marks the school district’s Bike It! Walk It! days, during which students are encouraged to come to school via bicycles, scooters, skateboards or sneakers instead
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education is currently accepting applications for openings on its district advisory committees.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — All four candidates vying for the 50th Assembly seat gave their thoughts on education at the Santa Monica League of Women Voters forum Saturday, revealing deep divides on how to pay for the service but rough consensus on who should provide it.
MALIBU CITY HALL —The Board of Education will hire consultants to analyze the impact of splitting the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District between its two incorporated cities after preliminary research by staff showed that the two new districts might survive the breakup.
