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With four weeks of in-person learning completed and most students on campus four days a week following a 13-month pandemic-related closure, the five San Diego Unified School District schools that make up the La Jolla Cluster have reported a total of four cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus, as of May 7.
Seven speakers from the La Jolla Country Day School community shared personal experiences related to “Agency, Resilience and Persistence,” the theme of the school’s inaugural TEDx event streamed live.
In a school year characterized by unprecedented challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the five public schools in La Jolla have chosen their Teachers of the Year for 2021.
“A woman who speaks is a woman with power,” says Katya Azzam, who coaches the Rhyme and Reason speech and debate team of eight middle school students, most of whom attend Muirlands Middle School in La Jolla.
The winners of the statewide Climate Video Challenge are in, and the creators of two of the top three videos hail from La Jolla.
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A local doctoral student has turned his penchant for pelican watching into a mathematical model of energy use that has possibilities beyond the waves.
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The requirement is conditional on full approval of one or more vaccines by the FDA as well as adequate availability of the fully approved vaccines.
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A family’s lawsuit alleges that a 6-year-old student at the San Diego French American School in La Jolla suffered bullying and harassment at the hands of two classmates and that the private school failed to investigate or take disciplinary action.
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With the San Diego Unified School District — including its five public schools that make up the La Jolla Cluster — having returned to campuses last week for onsite/online hybrid instruction, district staff is eyeing the summer and beyond.
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The San Diego Unified School District has completed its first week of reopening schools for all students who want to go back, and its Area 5 superintendent, Mitzi Merino, praised La Jolla teachers, school leaders and parents for a “smooth transition” from a year of online learning to a hybrid of online and onsite instruction.
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Students will be required to be vaccinated or have tested negative recently for the coronavirus.
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The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary. • Congregation Beth Israel presents its next Men’s Club forum, “A Conversation with Deputy Chief of Mission Eitan Weiss,” at 7 p.m.
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Thursday, May 13 • La Jolla Town Council meets, 5:30 p.m. online. (858) 454–1444. lajollatowncouncil.org/home Friday, May 14 • Kiwanis Club of La Jolla meets, 12:30 p.m. online.
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La Jolla nurse Quinn Quackenbush is driven to provide better results for patients, and for that she landed two of UC San Diego Health’s Nurse of the Year awards.
After over a year of distance learning and more than seven months into the current school year, La Jolla’s five public schools in the San Diego Unified School District welcomed most of their students back to campus April 12 as the district reopened from closures triggered by COVID-19.
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The university also may hold its June graduation ceremonies outdoors.
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La Jolla Elementary School is nearing the end of the first of three phases of a site modernization begun earlier this year, with the entire project expected to be completed in 2024.
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About 64% of the district’s families responded to the survey. About 27% said they will keep their children in distance learning full time for the rest of the school year.
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Despite not being on campus for their fifth-grade year and not getting to relax in the shade of Bird Rock Elementary School’s huge ficus tree during recess, some BRE students want to continue a tradition of leaving a gift to the school before they go on to middle school, and they’re working to plant a new tree on the playground.
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Collector Steve Turner, a UCSD graduate, donated to his alma mater 300 pieces of material that help tell the story of ‘the unknown participants.’
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As the San Diego Unified School District makes plans to return students to in-person instruction, the Foundation of La Jolla High School is giving the school and community something else to put on their calendar: a virtual Viking 5K Charge fundraiser.
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“We’re on track” to reopen April 12, San Diego Unified School District Area 5 Superintendent Mitzi Merino told the La Jolla Cluster Association during its March 18 meeting, referring to the district’s plan to have students return to campuses for up to four days a week of in-person instruction in a hybrid model with online learning.
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As the San Diego Unified School District prepares to welcome students back to campuses for its April 12 reopening from more than a year of pandemic closure, it’s offering families and staff members several resources intended to support their physical, emotional and social health.
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It’s the last roundup for two La Jolla eighth-grade robotics teams that have students who have been together since elementary school and are trying to make the most of their last year before moving on to what in some cases will be different high schools.
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Eight La Jolla Town Council trustees are sworn in following the latest election.
