SMMUSD HDQTRS — School board members voted unanimously Monday night to hire Sandra Lyon as the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s new superintendent.
BARNUM HALL — On Easter Sunday, a man in a bunny costume dropped from the sky onto a field of 25,000 brightly colored Easter eggs, much to the delight of hundreds of children on the McKinley Elementary School campus.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — School lunches are not what they used to be. Gone are the days of deep-fried mozzarella sticks with a suggestion of vegetable in the marinara sauce.
SMC — Over the course of six months in 1961, more than 400 people, both black and white, risked life and limb while traveling on buses and trains through the Jim Crow South to challenge segregation laws.
MID-CITY — Things are looking up for Concord Prep. It’s Sunday and a handful of teenagers from the small private high school are dressed in medieval garb, practicing lines in a student’s back yard in preparation for a school production of “The Tempest.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — With the possibility of getting education-funding tax extensions on the June ballot remote to the point of futility and other state funding in jeopardy, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District may be in for even deeper cuts than previously thought.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District staff and parents celebrated the healing of wounds and strides taken in educating students with special needs at the Board of Education meeting Wednesday night.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Classrooms and other facilities in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District are being cleaned with environmentally-friendly chemicals, officials with the district said Wednesday.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — The Board of Education will get a crack at the scope of work proposed for a $56 million project meant to renovate or replace sports and cultural facilities on Santa Monica High School’s campus at its meeting tonight.
SMC — Statewide budget uncertainty is taking its toll at Santa Monica College, which will only allow students to pre-enroll for one class for the summer session in an attempt to serve the largest number of students possible.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Tuesday, 240 of Santa Monica Malibu Unified’s best elementary school musicians traveled to Anaheim to do what people their age only dream of — play at the Disneyland Resort.
SMC — The Sato family, long synonymous with volleyball, will be inducted into the Santa Monica College Sports Hall of Fame during a private ceremony on Thursday, officials with the college said.
