In-class learning continues at SMMUSD
May. 05, 2021 at 6:00 am
Return: Students across Santa Monica have returned to in-class activities in recent weeks. Brennon Dixson
Local students are back on campus for the second week of full-time, in-class learning, and educators said Tuesday they are ecstatic to continue welcoming Santa Monica scholars back to school in the coming weeks.
After months of distance learning via Zoom, the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District welcomed preschoolers, high-schoolers and everybody in between back to campus, where district officials have been hard at work for months ensuring students can return safely.
An option to remain in distance learning-only is still available for families, but schools like John Adams Middle School have seen a significant portion of students return this week.
NYT:
SANTA MONICA, Calif. Of all the inequalities between rich and poor public schools, one of the more glaring divides is PTA fund-raising, which in schools with well-heeled parents can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars a year or more.
Several years ago, the Santa Monica-Malibu school board came up with a solution: Pool most donations from across the district and distribute them equally to all the schools.
This has paid big benefits to the needier schools in this wealthy district, like the Edison Language Academy in Santa Monica, where half the children qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The campus is decorated with psychedelic paintings of civil rights icons such as Cesar Chavez and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the work of the school’s art teacher, Martha Ramirez Oropeza, whose salary is paid by the pooled contributions. That money has also funded the school’s choral program, teacher aides, a science lab and a telescope.
UpdatedThu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:19 am PT
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More than 100 California high schools were ranked top schools by U.S. News and World Report. (Shutterstock)
CALIFORNIA Thousands of public California high schools have been ranked by U.S. News and World Report in the publication s latest analysis of upper school education in the United States, revealing the top schools across the state and beyond.
This year s Best High Schools list ranks more than 24,000 public high schools throughout the country.
Here s where the top 100 California schools ranked among others in the U.S.
(first number is ranking in California, second number is national ranking):
Back in Action
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Reopening: After months of learning outside of the classroom via Zoom, students attending John Muir Elementary School, SMASH and other elementary schools in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District were welcomed back to campus this week.
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