Public Samohi Academic Decathlon team places third at regional Science Bowl By Jeffrey I. Goodman on February 17, 2015 Members of Santa Monica High School's Academic Decathlon team created thousands of... Read more →
Public At inaugural read-aloud, Olympic students find their voices By Jeffrey I. Goodman on February 13, 2015 The mic was waiting for Colette Caughey, but she needed more time. One of her Olympic... Read more →
Public Turn Off TV Tuesday is one for the books By Jeffrey I. Goodman on February 12, 2015 On a narrow, dead-end street off San Vicente Boulevard, the sliding doors on the Toyota... Read more →
Public Flash mob promotes reading at Roosevelt Elementary By Jeffrey I. Goodman on February 10, 2015 With the entire Roosevelt Elementary School student body getting in place on the yard, a... Read more →
Public School board to contemplate ROP cuts By Jeffrey I. Goodman on February 5, 2015 On a recent evening, Rebel Harrison started counting individual mailboxes in the offices... Read more →
Education Santa Monica College president to retire this year By Matthew Hall on February 3, 2015 Dr. Chui L. Tsang has announced his impending retirement from Santa Monica... Read more →
Public ROP courses, teachers on chopping block By Jeffrey I. Goodman on February 3, 2015 When she started high school, Ariana Lopez couldn't envision giving a presentation in an... Read more →
Public Grant Elementary augmenting SMMUSD tech initiative By Jeffrey I. Goodman on February 2, 2015 Grant Elementary School students in grades K-2 will soon have access to new computer... Read more →
People How an Olympic High student won Super Bowl tickets By Jeffrey I. Goodman on January 31, 2015 The bright lights and television cameras were already some 375 miles east of Santa... Read more →
Events Samohi benefit concert to fund Carnegie Hall trip By Jeffrey I. Goodman on January 29, 2015 The Santa Monica High School wind ensemble wasn‚Äôt going to turn down a chance to... Read more →
Public SMMEF far from fundraising goal, still ‘optimistic’ By Jeffrey I. Goodman on January 26, 2015 The Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation is less than halfway to its $4 million goal... Read more →
Public Maureen Bradford retiring after 38 years with SMMUSD By Jeffrey I. Goodman on January 24, 2015 On her first day as a first-grade teacher, Maureen Bradford probably didn't know she was... Read more →
Public 1 SMMUSD enrollment: Was kindergarten ‘crop failure’ an anomaly? By Jeffrey I. Goodman on January 22, 2015 Where did all the kindergartners go? Just 81 students enrolled in kindergarten for every... Read more →
Public School board to examine SMMUSD enrollment By Jeffrey I. Goodman on January 20, 2015 Enrollment, parent involvement and suspension and expulsion rates are among the expected... Read more →
Public Ralph Mechur appointed to SMMUSD education board By Jeffrey I. Goodman on January 15, 2015 Ralph Mechur was appointed to the local Board of Education following an approximately... Read more →
