MALIBU — As the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District's Board of Education prepares to vote on a $385 million bond measure Wednesday to upgrade district facilities, several active Malibu
MALIBU HIGH ¬ó Councilmembers in Malibu approved a plan on Monday to erect four permanent 70-foot light poles on the football field and track at Malibu High School.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — The Board of Education adopted its 2012-13 budget Thursday night amid concerns over looming financial uncertainty over the state’s ongoing financial crisis.
SMMUSD HDQTRS ¬ó Public school officials have rejected a claim for over $1 million in damages filed by the family of a Malibu High School student who says she was slapped in the face multiple times by her teacher for failing to bring a notebook to class.
CITY HALL ¬ó A citizen-led committee voted to recommend that the Board of Education place a $385 million bond on the November ballot after polling results showed that prospective voters in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District were more likely to pass a bond than a parcel tax.
SMMUSD HDQTRS ¬ó The Malibu High School student who claims she was slapped in the face multiple times by her teacher in front of her entire class wants more than $1 million from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.
MALIBU — Fallen angels are what Marines call those who do not return from battle. “The last full measure of devotion” is how Lincoln put it. It’s also the dread of every family with a son or daughter on the battlefield.
MALIBU — When Rebecca Witjas’ daughter, a sixth grader at Malibu Middle School, was assigned a book report that had to do with survival, she figured her daughter would pick a familiar title like “The Swiss Family Robinson” from the list assigned by teacher Brigette Leonard.
CITYWIDE — Everyone knows that a good education costs, and that expense is going to go up in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District next year.
MALIBU CITY HALL —The Board of Education will hire consultants to analyze the impact of splitting the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District between its two incorporated cities after preliminary research by staff showed that the two new districts might survive the breakup.
MALIBU — Ellen and Michel Shane are looking to the future even as they’re dragged into the past. This week will see the soft opening of a new tutoring service the couple began in memory of their daughter Emily Shane, days after her alleged killer goes to trial for the second time.
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District school board has another embarrassment on its hands. This time its the March 20 resignation of Joan Chu Reese, vice chair of the district’s Financial Oversight Committee.
