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College Eligibility Rates of Santa Barbara’s Latinx, Black Students Lead to Call for ‘Urgent Action’ High school and district officials say they're exploring the reasons behind the academic gaps and how to improve them going forward Overall, 55% of Santa Barbara Unified School District graduates met A-G requirements for college admission in the 2019-20 year. From top to bottom, graduates attend commencement ceremonies at Dos Pueblos High School, San Marcos High School and Santa Barbara High School. SBHS graduates had a significantly lower rate of meeting the A-G requirements than gradua...

Pacifica High students organize health fair on campus View Comments Months of planning paid off for Pacifica High School students who organized booths alongside community organizations for a health fair on campus Thursday. The students are part of the Oxnard school's health science academy, a program geared toward students who want to work in health, medicine or a related field. Pacifica has held a health fair before in partnership with the nonprofit HealthCorps, according to Pacifica teacher Chloe Carson. The fair planned for last year was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequ...

Hans Bach-Nguyen and Soloman Anderson received the regional Youth and Young Adult Volunteer Award.

Editor's note:  CVUSD Superintendent Mark McLaughlin clarified a previous comment, and said intensive school based therapists are employees directly contracted and paid for by the district on an annual basis. The union representing school counselors in Conejo Valley Unified School District filed an unfair practice charge with the state over the district's handling of their responsibilities. The Conejo Valley Pupil Personnel Association filed the charge on Feb. 24 with the California Public Employment Relations Board. A statement Monday from the union said the charge stems from the district ...

Public and private schools offering transitional kindergarten through 12th grade in Ventura County reported 83 positive COVID-19 cases in February, according to officials. The count refers to anyone who was "on campus during their incubation period (14 days prior to their positive COVID test or symptom onset)," according to Ashley Bautista, a spokeswoman for Ventura County. Of the total cases, 57 were student cases and 26 were staff. Five of the 83 cases were from private schools, and the remaining 78 were from public schools. None of these cases were a result of on-campus spread, accord...