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Kids’ pictures will become a thousand words
MID-CITY — A summer’s worth of student photography will become a neighborhood’s worth of dialogue in an effort to reanimate...
Read moreSchool district changes date
The school board meeting scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 20, has been changed to Aug. 19 because of an inability to...
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Organ donor gives life to Barnum Hall
SAMOHI — The walls of Barnum Hall will soon echo with the sound of music, organ music to be exact....
Read moreWill Rogers principal dies
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Irma Lyons, the principal of Will Rogers Learning Community and 17-year veteran of the school district, died...
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Program places foster kids in private schools
DOWNTOWN — The beginning of senior year might still be more than a month away but Tyree Johnson already has...
Read moreSamohi’s Ross stays close to home
SMC — Guess Christian Ross likes Santa Monica. After starring for Santa Monica High School’s football team last season the...
Read moreSchool board taps new special ed head
SMMUSD HDQTRS — A Seattle native with 25 years experience working in special education has been tapped to lead the...
Read moreA government of the people and by the people
SMC BROAD STAGE — What started as an opinion piece has sparked a movement to reform state government. Last August,...
Read moreSchool district to consider another parcel tax
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Santa Monica residents have been known for their generous support of public schools through parcel tax and...
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Cutting out the fat in school lunches
SMMUSD — Where kids once hid from boogie monsters in their closets or ghosts under their beds, today they’re being...
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