Students, parents, teachers and staff of La Jolla’s five public schools rallied Monday, May 14 to demand that the San Diego Board of Education rescind more than 1,650 planned pink slip notices district-wide.
Some critical of 4.8 percent pay increase for incoming chancellor.
Rallies will be held at five La Jolla schools Monday in an effort to urge the school board to rescind 53 teacher and staff pink slips.
In her short time racing, Taylor has experienced her share of “carnage,” competing against male and female drivers more than twice her age.
On a mission to promote Earthly sustainability, teacher/artist/business exec Barbara Gothard, teamed up with Barak Smith, head of the art department at the Preuss School on the UCSD campus, to offer a unique class for underprivileged kids. Gothard received a grant from the Picerne Foundation to develop and present the Art & Sustainability course as part of its Artist Outreach program. She’s been teaching with Smith in his classroom every Tuesday since last July.
University of California President Mark Yudof announce at noon on May 3, his selection of Pradeep K. Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering, aka the Carnegie Institute of Technology, to serve as the eighth chancellor of UC San Diego.
Bird Rock Elementary School’s Daisy Troop 3869 welcomed spring with a planting project on campus. The troop, led by Audrey Gans and Mindy McNeill, spent March earning the Rose Petal, one of the badges that Daisy Girl Scouts earn by making the world a better place.
Officials with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in San Diego were trying today to determine how a UC San Diego student in their custody wound up forgotten in a holding cell for four days, apparently without food or water, according to a statement from the federal agency.
Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz has heard many parents ask the same question: ‘How can I get my son or daughter into the best college there is?’
La Jolla High School presented its annual Celebration of the Arts on Saturday afternoon with students, parents and teachers gathering on the quad from 1 to 4 p.m. to hear music, listen to open mic presentations, and view pottery, woodworking and painting demonstrations. Much work was for sale to raise funds for the fine arts programs at the school.
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