SMMUSD HDQTRS — School nurses will be working overtime to examine the medical records of almost 5,000 students to find out whether or not each has received a required whooping cough vaccine before the start of the next school year.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — The Board of Education at tonight’s meeting will consider eliminating six elementary teaching positions and nearly as many nursing jobs in an effort to hedge against potential revenue reductions.
CITYWIDE — Elementary students at both of Santa Monica’s Catholic schools can look forward to shorter summer vacations and more days in the classroom next year.
SMC — For the first time in years, Santa Monica College this summer will not offer “late-start” classes, a decision that means high school students in particular could have a harder time enrolling in college level courses.
SAMOHI — Friends of Santa Monica High School freshman Matthew Mezza on Saturday were struggling to understand what drove the 14-year-old, who played baseball at Samohi and was known as a bright student and a bit of a jokester, to jump to his death from an upper floor of the Sheraton Delfina hotel on
Those interested in becoming members of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s Financial Oversight Committee now have until Jan. 28 to submit an application.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified school board on Monday voted to hire Leadership Associates to conduct the search for the district’s next superintendent.
ST. MONICA — It may have been so-called “ugly,” but St. Monica’s boys’ basketball team was able to hold on to a late lead and topple nearby Malibu, 43-35, Monday on campus.
There’s a new scandal at the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. In October of 2008, the district initiated an investigation following a complaint that a teacher sexually harassed a 13-year-old female student in a ninth grade math class — a violation of SMMUSD policy 5145.
MALIBU — The school board has rejected a bid by a group of Malibu parents and teachers to turn Point Dume Marine Science Academy into a charter school that operates independent of district oversight.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — A group of Malibu parents and teachers that wants to turn Point Dume Marine Science Academy into a charter school lacks a sound financial plan and sufficient experience operating a school, according to a school district report that urges board members to reject the group’s charter sc
