Dr. Sandra Lyon, Palm Springs Unified School District Superintendent, joined News Channel 3’s Peter Daut to answer coronavirus questions related to our local schools. Watch KESQ at 6:30 p.m. on Fox and CBS every weekday as we bring in health experts and local officials to answer your coronavirus questions live in-studio. Send your questions typed
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Two Indio High School students have been honored with the President’s Volunteer Service Award. 18-year-old Samantha Ramirez and 17-year-old Aaron Delgado received the award because they “volunteered significant amounts of their time to serve their communities and their country,” according to a release issued by Desert Sands Unified School District public information officer Mary Perry.
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An irrigation pipe broke on the campus at Saul Martinez Elementary School in Mecca Tuesday morning, forcing several classes to move to other rooms in the building, according to Coachella Valley Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Gandera. “The main water line to the school is not damaged,” Dr. Gandera wrote in an email to
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Proposition 13, put on the ballot by the California Assembly, would authorize the state to borrow $15 billion to spend on the state’s public schools. According to the Voter Information Guide, the interest on the bond measure would total $11 billion, for a total taxpayer-funded spending package of $26 billion. The money raised would go
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Some local youngsters had the opportunity to experience something unthinkable in the Coachella Valley Thursday morning – a snow day! Continuing its yearly tradition, the Bermuda Dunes Learning Center trucked in about a ton of snow for the preschool students to play in. For many students, this is the first time they’ve had a chance
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Those who gathered for the annual “state of the college” luncheon Wednesday were the first to learn about plans for a lot just off East Palm Canyon Drive and Margot Murphy Way in Cathedral City. College of the Desert President Dr. Joel Kinnamon discussed the plans for building a training center and classroom space for
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The Palm Springs Unified School District’s top student spellers will compete Friday for a spot in the county spelling bee. Forty-two students in grades 4 through 8 are slated to compete in the 43rd annual Spelling Bee of Champions, according to PSUSD spokeswoman Joan Boiko. The winner will advance to represent the district at the
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A professor of ecology and evolutionary biology will be in town Wednesday to discuss large animals and why they matter. James Estes, who teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is known for his research into the “ecosystem-level influences of large predators,” according to the university. He is also known for his studies of
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Demonstrators rallied outside the state capitol in Sacramento Wednesday morning in support of Senate Bill 673, before the state senate’s education committee voted down the measure. Backers say the bill would have allowed parents to thoroughly review what their children are being taught about sex education in the state’s public elementary schools. “I’d like to
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Nine elementary schools in Riverside County (three of those schools in the Coachella Valley) are among 323 learning institutions statewide that earned a spot on the “2020 Distinguished Schools” list drawn up by the California Department of Education, it was announced today. “These outstanding schools don’t just educate students; they also provide the young people
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Palm Springs Police confirmed Tuesday morning that they were investigating a student who posted a non-specific threat against schools on social media Monday, but that the student stated he never intended to shoot anyone. In an update sent out at 9:30 a.m., PSPD announced that they, in conjunction with CCPD, arrested the juvenile connected to
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There are several smartphone apps authorities say parents should know about. Some, even being used by suspected predators recently arrested. October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and in News Channel 3’s Madison Weil’s special report “Dangerous Apps” she speaks with students and local PSUSD security experts on what to look out for when it comes
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The Rancho Mirage Rotary Club is distributing dictionaries and thesauruses to Rancho Mirage Elementary School students Tuesday as part of a regional Rotary project. The club’s annual project, which has run for more than 20 years, provides third-grade students with dictionaries and teaches them about the work of a Rotary Club, said Betty Teoman, a
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Classes are canceled next week at Madison Elementary School in Indio because of structural corrosion in some buildings on the school campus. District officials tell News Channel 3 that beginning October 21st, classes for all students at Madison Elementary will resume in La Quinta at the Adams Early Childhood Education Center. We are told classes
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With the sun beating down on the valley floor nearly every day of the year, staying cool is always a challenge, especially in school buses, most of which in service locally don’t have air conditioning. “i mean it gets really hot in the desert so, yeah I’m surprised there wouldn’t be air conditioning already on
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Laymond Gray, whose family lives in the “Desert Highland Gateway Estates” neighborhood of North Palm Springs talked about his children and his girlfriend’s child, lining up at the SunLine bus stop every morning to ride and from Palm Springs High School. “We don’t want public transportation, we want safety, we want our children to be
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A Salton City mother says the school bus has been late just about every day since the semester began, and says her son is missing critical time during his first period pre-algebra class. The student is a 7th grader at Cahuilla Desert Academy in Coachella where the mascot spreads its wings. Amari Kariotis says she
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At the Desert Sands Unified School District, 21 percent of the students surveyed over five-year period, from 2013 to 2017, contemplated suicide. In Palm Springs Unified the number was 19 percent, and in Coachella Valley Unified the number was 13 percent. Briana Carrick is substitute teacher in the Palm Springs Unified School District. “They see
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Thousands of underprivileged schoolchildren in the Coachella Valley will receive clothing this week, thanks to a donation drive by a Palm Springs-based nonprofit organization. The Assistance League of Palm Springs is making the apparel available under “Operation School Bell,” which the nonprofit has also conducted in previous school years to ensure economically disadvantaged children have
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