With 2024 beginning to wind down, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education caught up on progress reports from district maintenance staff and the Santa Monica Education Foundation.
SMEF’s funding for 2024-25 district programs totals $2,409,000; more than $200,000 than last year’s campaign, anchored by a record-setting wine auction event in May.
This past month, Santa Monica-based non-profit Free 2 Be Me Dance, which hosts dance classes for people with disabilities, launched a GoFundMe campaign to keep its doors open. Seeking funding
The Democratic National Committee announced Thursday that 20 candidates have qualified for the party’s first presidential debates later this month.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and U.S. Rep. Seth
Almost every weekend, Lynne Cohen wanted to spend time at the beach in Santa Monica. From her Brentwood home, she would call what was then the Sand & Sea Club
Even in an uncertain financial climate marked by a massive budget deficit, the Santa Monica-Malibu school district doesn’t want to do away with arts education.
The local Board of
