Long Beach’s St. Anthony High School appoints new president
A financial services consultant who has been connected to St. Anthony High School since 2005 will become the next president of the private Catholic campus....
County Superintendent Debate Canceled After Candidate Refuses to Sign Release Form
Credit: Courtesy A candidates’ forum for Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools scheduled for Thursday evening and hosted by the League of Women Voters has...
Graduate Students at UC Santa Barbara Rally for Improved Wages
As contract bargaining with the University of California (UC) continues, three unions representing 48,000 academic workers rallied across UC campuses in an intended show of...
Santa Barbara County Education Office Announces 2023 Teacher of the Year
Credit: Santa Barbara County Education Office The Santa Barbara County Education Office (SBCEO) announced the 2023 teacher of the year to be Joanna Hendrix, a...
COVID hospital, death numbers remain low in LA County despite case increases
With COVID-related hospital numbers and deaths remaining low despite rising case numbers, Los Angeles County health officials on Monday, May 9, touted what they called...
Largest-ever Cal State Long Beach graduations to kick off next week
Nearly 12,000 Cal State Long Beach students are expected to walk the stage — and fill Angel Stadium of Anaheim seven separate times over two...
‘Take That, COVID’: Harding Elementary Students Sling Paint in Therapeutic Project
Twenty 4th-grade students from Harding Elementary — suited up in aprons, boots, and goggles — prepared themselves for the inevitable splashes of paint as one...
LA County reports 3,000+ new COVID cases as infections keep rising
Continuing an upward trend in infections, Los Angeles County reported more than 3,000 new COVID-19 infections today, but the number of virus-positive patients in local...
Santa Barbara School District Attempts to Bridge Education Gap for English Learners
The Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) is reviewing three potential curriculum options for emergent multilingual learners (EML), or students whose primary language is not...
LA County’s Ferrer warns of new – potentially more dangerous – COVID variants
The average number of daily new COVID-19 infections in Los Angeles County has jumped by about 200% over the past month, but while the increase...
LA County urges workplace safety as COVID spread continues
Los Angeles County health officials urged employers on Monday, May 2, to use “common sense strategies” to combat COVID-19 in light of increasing spread of...
Airline pilot shortage prompts college aviation course at Ontario airport
When folks at Ontario International Airport and Ontario City Hall noticed aviation jobs — including airline pilots — were falling behind demand for air travel,...
Alondra Park, El Camino College replaced a planned luxury Black neighborhood called ‘Gordon Manor’
Bruce’s Beach isn’t the only park in the South Bay that was created at the expense of Black entrepreneurs and communities. The land on which...
2,550 new COVID cases reported in LA County as infections continue to rise
The number of daily new COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County continued to creep upward on Friday, April 29, with another 2,550 infections reported, prompting...
COVID-19 still growing in LA County, Ferrer says, warning of strengthening BA.2 subvariant
It’s not a “surge” by any means, but COVID-19 transmission continues to be widespread across Los Angeles County, the public health director said on Thursday,...
Federal officials fault LAUSD’s services for disabled students during pandemic
The Los Angeles Unified School District failed to provide adequate educational services to students with disabilities during the COVID-19 campus shutdown, and will take steps...
More than four in 10 California parents say kids fell behind from school closures
More than four in 10 parents say their kids fell behind academically during the COVID-19 pandemic, when California trailed the country in reopening classrooms to...
School Board Hears Reports on Pandemic Learning Recovery, English-Learning Students
The Santa Barbara Unified School Board reviewed at its April 26 meeting the pandemic learning recovery report, meant to lay out the general plan for...
LA County reports uptick in school COVID infections after Spring Break
LOS ANGELES — Spring break appears to have sparked a jump in COVID-19 cases among school students and staff, with both the number of new...
Santa Barbara School District Settles Lawsuit over Dos Pueblos Hazing
Warning: This story contains graphic and disturbing descriptions of assault and unwanted sexual situations involving minors. The Santa Barbara Unified School District has reached a...
Campaign for arts and music education funding kicks off
Kevin Frazier is the MC of the event announcing the kick-off campaign for the “Vote Arts and Minds” ballot measure at Hamilton High School in...
UCLA grad/JPL veteran set to become 1st black woman on Space Station crew
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – APRIL 26: In this handout photo provided by NASA, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard...
These SoCal high schools are among the best in state, nation
Los Angeles and Orange counties once again had some of the best high schools in the country, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News...
Childcare for an Infant, or One Year of Tuition at UC Santa Barbara?
Of the 32,000 or so children under the age of 5 in Santa Barbara County, many have been in childcare nearly since birth, but what...