SMC — May Day came to the Main Stage of Santa Monica College Tuesday evening as labor leaders, teacher representatives and students continued their protest against a proposal for self-funded summer classes that the Board of Trustees and administration refuse to take off the table.
MALIBU — Ellen and Michel Shane are looking to the future even as they’re dragged into the past. This week will see the soft opening of a new tutoring service the couple began in memory of their daughter Emily Shane, days after her alleged killer goes to trial for the second time.
SMC — Santa Monica College officials released a report Monday showing that 15 community colleges in the Los Angeles area will have only a third of the seats open during the summer that they did four years ago, restricting students’ access to classes and forcing them into the arms of for-profit unive
CITY HALL — The Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation got a much-needed injection of cash from the City Council Tuesday night to support its new role as the main fundraiser for programs in the local school district.
OLYMPIC HIGH SCHOOL — City officials accepted a proposal this week from a local nonprofit to help lessen its impacts on the neighborhoods and businesses around it, but residents remain skeptical that the agreement has any teeth.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — In a city where almost 63 percent of the population has at least a bachelor’s degree, the words “vocational training” can take on a distasteful patina.
LOS ANGELES — The Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority will move full steam ahead with the second phase of a rail line into Santa Monica in light of a court decision handed down Tuesday that rejected a neighborhood group’s lawsuit against the project.
SANTA MONICA BLVD — Santa Monica College’s Performing Arts Center is planning an encore. Officials with the college on Wednesday said they have hired an architect and will break ground next year on a $12.
SMC — Protesters against the concept of self-funded classes at Santa Monica College have something to celebrate — the law seems to be on their side. That’s the word coming from officials with the Community College Chancellor’s Office, who say that conversations with the Attorney General’s Office rea
SMC — The panel tapped to review Santa Monica College officials’ response to student protests that left three students hospitalized is set to meet in coming weeks to begin assessing what officials could have done differently.
SMC — The Santa Monica College Board of Trustees Friday put the brakes on a controversial program that would have required students to shoulder the entire cost of optional summer courses.
SMC — Hundreds of students gathered outside the Santa Monica College president’s office in a third day of protests calling for an end to a proposal to make students shoulder the entire cost of certain summer school classes and punishment for campus police that pepper sprayed students and onlookers a
