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“Through this framework building, we’re going to have very clear expectations on what will happen when an incident of bias occurs and currently that's one of the things that is missing in our schools,” Roggeman said. 

“I think that what you’ve seen across the state is that it’s been harder for the students to recover in mathematics from the effects of the pandemic than it has been for them to recover in English language arts,” said the district's director of curriculum, Buck Roggeman. “That makes sense because the content of math builds on itself from one year to the next. So with a break in progression, I think it’s going to take longer for the mathematics scores to recover than it will for ...

It’s a busy week for school boards, with governing boards from all the districts on the Peninsula scheduled to meet. Here are the school board meetings to keep an eye on this week. 

Friday, Oct. 6

The training – in partnership with Lozano Smith law firm – will consist of five sessions from Oct. 2023 through Feb. 2024 to “provide legal and practical foundation for addressing and responding to bias incidents and creating a sustainable approach to system-wide practices based on a framework and internal accountability.”

Martin Luther King Jr. said once, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” I think about that quote often, followed by wondering just how

Valerie Anthony, a veteran and mother to three boys who attended the school, says her boys were subjected to numerous racial incidents over a two-year span at the school.

Valerie Anthony stood in front of Robert Down Elementary School in Pacific Grove on Thursday and spoke, at times through tears, about the impact that racist comments had on her three boys who attended the school.

“I think if the NAACP had engaged with us sooner on this, they would see what the district has been doing,” said the district's interim superintendent, Josh Jorn. “Unfortunately, it takes time for the trickle down effect for some of the practices, policies, procedures and professional developments that we’ve initiated to trickle down all the way to our student population, which is where this instance began.”

Important! For Dead Doctors Dont Lie Use: 888-379-2552 PG Investigating Vandalism-5/3/21-1747-PMD Investigators in Pacific Grove are looking for witnesses to a graffiti spree. Police are asking for people who may have witnessed a graffiti spree Sunday night. The vandalism took place between Robert Down Elementary School and the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History covered in graffiti, with the vandals tagging 12 different spots during the night.