Some Desert Hot Springs High School band students are trying their hand at a different kind of art. Students spent the morning working on four murals on plywood. Local artist Piper Scott worked with the students to create their masterpieces. “It’s pure, just understanding, it’s going to leave a legacy. You know, kids in the future are
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Friday’s College of the Desert Board of Trustees meeting showed signs of strain as a scheduled review of the college’s west valley campus designs was postponed. The College of the Desert board of trustees did not move ahead with new design plans for a West Valley Campus in Palm Springs. Instead, there may have been
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A student from Nellie Coffman Middle School won Palm Springs Unified School District’s “Bee of Champions” on Friday. PSUSD’s bee of champions includes two students from each of the district’s elementary and middle schools who won their recent spelling bees. The event was held Friday morning at the Cathedral City High School theater. Nellie Coffman’s
Continue Reading On Friday, the College of the Desert board of education will hold a presentation with updates on the Palm Springs campus and Roadrunner Motors in Cathedral City. Last month, the board voted to audit expansion projects dating back to 2014 New Designs for the Palm Springs COD Campus One of the major presentations set for
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College of the Desert will offer three new hospitality management classes to expand students’ career opportunities in the Coachella Valley’s number one industry, officials said today. Registration for the courses will be available until they begin on Jan. 30, according to the college’s hospitality management instructor and faculty advisor Yolanda Bender. The new courses are
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OpenAI’s new chatbot is raising fears of cheating on homework, but some educators see it as a potential educational tool. Chat GPT is a text generation system that has the potential to write essays, act as a virtual assistant, and even provide customer support. Artificial intelligence allows you to generate conversational text for some questions.
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College of the Desert is having a Nurse Pinning Ceremony on Friday, bringing 28 new nurses into the workforce. From simulations in the classroom to “clinicals” at local hospitals, that has been the life of the last few years for the 2022 College of the Desert nursing graduates. Ysmael Mercado is the valedictorian of his
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Students from throughout Coachella Valley are putting their holiday spirit and talents on display. A fully staged holiday special featuring Musical Theatre University and students of Palm Springs Unified School District, called “It’s a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Christmas,” is airing on News Channel 3’s family of broadcast television stations this holiday season. Founder of
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By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Biden administration program to cancel student loans will remain blocked for now, but the justices agreed to take up the case in late winter. The court’s decision to hear arguments in about three months means it is likely to determine whether the widespread loan
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As kids struggle with mental health challenges in school after pandemic distance learning, educators across the nation are reporting an increase in anxiety, bullying, and violence among student populations. For Brianna Garcia, a mother of two elementary school kids in Indio, she’s doing her best to help her girls catch up. And that means tutors, along with a
Continue Reading By COLLIN BINKLEY and CHRIS MEGERIAN WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that his administration will extend the pause on federal student loan payments while the White House fights a legal battle to save his plan to cancel portions of the debt. “It isn’t fair to ask tens of millions of borrowers eligible
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The Coachella Valley Unified School District is moving forward with its plans to build a new elementary school in North Shore. North Shore Elementary School will be built at the corner of Arthur Street and 70th Avenue. On Friday, district and community leaders broke ground on the site of the campus as residents watched on. Right
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College of the Desert focused on sharing its future growth across its campuses in its annual State of the College address, “COD Rising,” Wednesday. Superintendent/President Martha Garcia, Ed.D., shared details about some of the College’s upcoming projects, including the Palm Springs Development Project, Roadrunner Motors in Cathedral City, and the Indio campus expansion. “In regards
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Most California students did not meet standards in math and English this year, state officials announced Monday in another example of test scores continuing to fall after the pandemic — including notable declines for Black and Latino children. Two out of three California students did not meet state math standards, and
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By JIM SALTER ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal appeals court late Friday issued an administrative stay temporarily blocking President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel billions of dollars in federal student loans. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued the stay while it considers a motion from six Republican-led states to block the loan cancellation
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In less than 3 weeks, voters will decide who they want to represent them on College of the Desert’s Board of Trustees, as two seats are up for election. District 1 Ruben Perez (Incumbent)Larissa Chavez Chaidez District 4 Aurora Wilson (Incumbent)Joel Kinnamon College of the Desert Board Chair Ruben Perez is running for another four-year
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A check presentation ceremony will take place to celebrate the $79 million state budget allocation to build Phase I of a new Student Services Building at the California State University, San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus. When complete, the new building will include an advising/tutoring center, career center, expanded campus library, group study space, a cross-cultural
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, Sam Fossum and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday announced the formal launch of the federal application for Americans seeking student loan forgiveness, the latest phase of his plan that is expected to provide debt relief to as many as 43 million borrowers. “Today, I’m announcing millions of people working
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The Palm Springs Unified School District is holding a Diversity and Racial Equity Conference at the Palm Springs Convention Center on Saturday, October 22 from 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM. At the conference they will have panels from varying topics such as Latino/a/x Communidad with Melina Duarte, Native American Visibility with Faith Morreo, Creating Safe
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College of the Desert is making a renewed push to highlight resources available to undocumented students, following a recent appeals court ruling that put the DACA Program in limbo once again. Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling deeming the program illegal. The program shields roughly
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