ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY — Sometimes, it’s nice not to be the trailblazer. Members of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District community will gather Saturday morning at Roosevelt Elementary School to hear another side of the districtwide fundraising debate — how other districts made it work.
SMC — Over the protests of angry students, Santa Monica College’s Board of Trustees passed a policy Tuesday night that will create a second tier of higher-cost classes to expand access to education in the wake of drastic state cuts.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — The complicated process of unraveling Santa Monica’s Redevelopment Agency has claimed an unexpected victim: The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.
LINCOLN BLVD — A local youth and member of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica, Maya McComsey, was named the national winner of the Club Tech Digital Arts Festivals for the Music Tech Category for the 13-15 age group, it was announced Monday.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — A presentation by county officials to the Board of Education Thursday night left board members with more questions than they had answers about the cost and implications of Malibu schools leaving the district, and division on how to get more information.
SAMOHI — Santa Monica High School choral director Jeffe Huls was awarded an Arts Specialist Award at the 30th annual Music Center BRAVO Awards. The ceremony, which took place at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, was held on March 1.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — The Board of Education is expected on Thursday to get details on the legal and procedural issues involved with taking the Malibu out of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.
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.
