Next month I’ll board a red-eye with 50 high school juniors from South Los Angeles, beginning a nine-day trip to ten East coast colleges. There, these new recruits to
After a century of acting as an educational and social hub for the Santa Monica community, the Ocean Park Library will be celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. To commemorate
This week’s upcoming board meeting will cover aspects of the future, near-future and present of the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District.
Items on the March 21 SMMUSD school
In the wake of a massive college bribery scheme, the schools caught in the middle have been left facing a thorny question: What to do about the students who may
The Santa Monica College (SMC) Table Tennis Team has qualified to advance to the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association (NCTTA) tournament—the national championship—to be held in North Carolina,
After a miraculous three game winning streak that started in the regional tournament, the Santa Monica College (SMC) Corsairs basketball team suffered their biggest and most painful loss against the
A judge rejected a motion by the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) Tuesday to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that alleges the district forces students to buy their own educational
In the first lawsuit to come out of the college bribery scandal, two students are suing Yale, Georgetown, Stanford and other schools entangled in the case, saying they and others
For 25 years, William “Rick” Singer was in the business of helping high school students get into some of the country’s top colleges, gaining a reputation as a master
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) is launching a project-based learning program for 100 students entering ninth grade in the fall in a renovated space at Olympic High School.
The generation inheriting climate change isn’t waiting until they grow up to do something about it.
Three Lincoln Middle School students won first, second and third place in an
Local elementary schoolers may soon be more emotionally intelligent than many adults.
All elementary schools in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) will be practicing mindfulness in the classroom
