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The San Diego Unified School District board has passed a $1.5 billion budget that avoids spending cuts and includes $45 million specifically to reopen campuses from their coronavirus-triggered closure.
Jeff Luna, a vice principal at Muirlands Middle School since 2008, has been named principal of the La Jolla campus.
UC San Diego says it will attempt to partly resume in-person classes this fall and will offer free and regular COVID-19 coronavirus testing to its 65,000 students, faculty and staff, a program that could cost up to $2 million a month.
A plan to test all students, staff and faculty may not be sufficient to stop coronavirus spread.
La Jolla’s three public elementary schools held reunions this month of their Classes of 2013 as those students prepared to graduate from La Jolla High School, keeping traditions alive via new platforms.
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La Jolla public and private schools are planning to reopen their campuses following a June 15 county health order allowing San Diego schools to resume in-person classes following the months-long closure and distance learning forced by the coronavirus pandemic.
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A six- or seven-day school week, a longer school year, holding classes in a community theater or in a school cafeteria — those are some of the suggestions San Diego County school officials made for schools to reopen in coming months from their coronavirus-driven closure.
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The San Diego Unified School District board approved a fall reopening plan June 16 that will let families choose from two options: full in-person learning, and distance learning with options for onsite activities.
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La Jolla private schools chose different ways to bid farewell to members of the Class of 2020.
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Muirlands Middle School handed out yearbooks and promotion certificates to its departing eighth-graders June 12 with a bit of music and color as a way to help them celebrate after the usual in-person ceremony was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The San Diego County medical examiner’s office identified a 64-year-old man whose body lifeguards recovered on a rocky stretch of shoreline in La Jolla on June 28.
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With no resolution to a last-minute, expensive roadblock, the La Jolla Shores Association says it can’t proceed with its proposed outdoor dining on Avenida de la Playa.
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Who hasn’t seen a kid who is a picky eater — only wanting chicken nuggets or not eating foods that touch the plate?
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Jocko Marcellino, an original member of Sha Na Na, has taken mask-wearing seriously.
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The flu is a strain of the virus that killed 285,000 people globally in 2009.
Three students are being honored this year as La Jolla High School’s best of the best: Maxwell Coy, Paige Olson and Brandon Roberts.
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Torrey Pines Elementary School physical-education coach Sergio Cabrera had one intense day May 31.
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The five La Jolla Cluster schools in the San Diego Unified School District have selected their Teachers of the Year and plan to celebrate them in novel fashion.
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The faculty and staff of La Jolla High School celebrated the graduating Class of 2020 on June 2 with a unique drive-through celebration in place of a traditional commencement ceremony as orders against large, close-up gatherings remain in effect due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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UC San Diego leaders apologized for an incident May 31 in which unidentified people interrupted a Zoom call to make racial comments aimed at the university’s black community.
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UC San Diego said none of the 1,300 students it tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus in recent weeks turned out to be infected, supporting the university’s belief that the virus isn’t widely present on the huge La Jolla campus.
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Graduates in La Jolla High School’s Class of 2020 will be recognized under unusual pomp-and-circumstances Tuesday, June 2, with a drive-through pre-graduation celebration.
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Former Maserati space to become Sherwin-Williams La Jolla’s former Maserati dealership at Girard Avenue and Pearl Street will become a Sherwin-Williams paint store in the fourth quarter of this year.
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What education will look like in August, when the next school year is scheduled to begin, was still up in the air as the La Jolla Cluster Association met May 14 to talk about the possibilities.
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La Jolla Country Day School, looking for a new boys basketball coach, got more than 80 applicants from across the country.
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As a child, Bishop’s School student Lila Chitayat always looked forward to art class.
