SAMOHI — A diverse assortment of Santa Monica city officials, school board dignitaries and community members gathered at Santa Monica High School Saturday to discuss an issue that lurks on the periphery of polite conversation — racism.
SMC — Hundreds of classified employees here — including gardeners, administrative assistants and technical support staff — have agreed to a new health care plan that is expected to save the community college more than $1 million next year, officials said Monday.
SMC — The new Organic Learning Garden at Santa Monica College is sprouting. Winter crops such as beets and lettuce, bok choy and fava beans, carrots and kale, and much more have been planted as the beds of soil come to life.
DISTRICTWIDE — The vast majority of the money raised by school-site Parent Teacher Associations gets spent on staff, either for special programs, like the arts, or teacher aides.
WILL ROGERS — “Kiss the pig! Kiss the pig!” The repetitive chant rang across the blacktop at the Will Rogers Learning Community Friday morning over the poppy-dance strains of Eifel 65’s “Blue.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — A pair of UCLA professors are seeking permission to use Lincoln and John Adams middle schools as laboratories to study the effects of racial diversity on students at urban middle schools.
MALIBU — At the last Board of Education meeting held in Malibu, residents and council members employed language from the American Revolution to request an advisory seat at the dais.
SAMOHI — Volunteers raising money for a documentary following the Santa Monica High School choir successfully hit their fundraising goal just hours before all of the donations slipped from their grasp.
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed two bills authored by Assemblywoman Julia Brownley (D-Santa Monica), both focused on improving academic standards and programs.
DISTRICTWIDE — A nonprofit organization established in memory of a former Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District student aims at increasing access to specialized tutors for students with learning challenges.
DOWNTOWN — Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District officials are considering switching to district-wide fundraising, a move which proponents believe would cut to the roots of the achievement gap by evening up financial support for schools with higher populations of low-income students.
MALIBU HIGH — Malibu High School may yet see the return of lights to its nighttime sporting events, a moment five years in the making. In a drastic shift, the Coastal Commission staff has recommended that the commission approve a modified proposal on today’s agenda to allow the city of Malibu limite
