SMMUSD HDQTRS — Santa Monica and Malibu students showed gains in both language arts and mathematics in the most recent statewide standardized test, the California Department of Education reported this week.
Supporters of local public schools have raised more than $1 million to help save teachers’ jobs and close the funding gap for the upcoming school year, organizers with the Save Our Schools campaign said this week.
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is seeking applications for appointment to the Personnel Commission. Applications are now being accepted for the Personnel Commission vacancy, which becomes available on Dec.
The SMMUSD on Monday released income eligibility guidelines for free and reduced-price meals for students. Parents can now apply for the National School Lunch and Breakfast Program.
SMC — Reacting to complaints about the loss of exercise classes at Emeritus College, college officials are exploring options to reinstate the classes, possibly charging students a fee.
SMC — Despite concerns about construction projects slated for Santa Monica College raised by the neighborhood group Friends of Sunset Park, the school’s board of trustees on Tuesday unanimously approved a new master plan that envisions construction, building renovations and demolitions at the colleg
JAMS — It was a bad year for incumbents at Sunday’s Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights convention, with one sitting City Council member and two incumbent school board members failing to win endorsements from the influential political party.
CITYWIDE — Residents are constantly encouraged to donate to public schools, however it can be hard to write a check in the current economic climate. To account for this, the Santa Monica Malibu Education Foundation is giving people the chance to donate in another way — by having fun.
LINCOLN BLVD — Parents of children with autism who attend Pine Street Preschool will tell people straight away that the collection of four makeshift classrooms is not the most aesthetically appealing learning environment in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Despite severe funding cuts at the state level, education officials last week decided it was more important to bring back counselors than to save money.
SMC — Natalie Lewis can’t believe that at 78 years old she is able to do a handstand. She gained the strength and flexibility to accomplish the feat in a yoga class at Santa Monica’s Emeritus College; a class she has taken for 10 years and said she could not have done it without her teacher, Marsha
The school board has appointed three administrators to fill key positions throughout the district. Debra Washington was selected as the new assistant superintendent of human resources, replacing Mike Matthews, who left this spring to become superintendent of Manhattan Beach schools.
