A News Channel 3 investigation has uncovered that district officials didn’t follow safety protocols in multiple incidents when weapons were reported at valley schools. In response to outraged parents, scared students and KESQ’s questions, the district says it made changes. But are they working? Repeated reports of weapons Three east valley schools and thousands of
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The Desert Sands Unified School District will be holding a job fair on Saturday, March 11th, from 8:00 am until noon, at the district office, at 47-950 Dune Palms Road in La Quinta. According to the district they are looking to fill full-time non-teaching positions at the job fair. Jobs open include bus drivers, nutrition
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Security at the Coachella Valley Unified School District plans to ask for additional funds to increase the number of visits by canine detection services. The services are provided by Interquest Detection Canines of San Diego. In August 2022, the board originally approved 24 visits for canine inspections at CVUSD schools. According to district documents, there
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A lockdown that led to several tense hours at Coachella Valley High School has been lifted following unfounded reports of a student with a knife, officials confirmed. Parents and guardians were outside the gates of the school Tuesday morning, waiting for information on the lockdown. Eventually, they were directed to the main gym to pick
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The One Class At A Time award winner for the month of February is Dr. Jessica Thacker, a special education teacher at Bella Vista Elementary School in Desert Hot Springs. “I love what I do. My students are amazing,” said Dr. Thacker after receiving the honor, which came as a complete surprise. The award is
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College of the Desert President/Superintendent Dr. Martha Garcia could be leaving her position soon. On Tuesday, she was named one of five finalists to be the new president of Mt. San Antonio College. The five final candidates were chosen from a group of 12 semifinalists who were interviewed Feb. 23, Feb. 24, and Feb. 27.
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Elementary, junior high and high school students on Wednesday will showcase a host of simple and complex projects — from firefighting drones to mummified sausages — as part of a two-day Riverside County Science & Engineering Fair. About 450 students from private and public schools throughout the county are slated to take part in the
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Hundreds of students at Coachella Valley High School walked out of class Monday morning in protest of a lack of safety measures. “Every single day I wake up and I don’t know if that’s the last time I’m going to tell my mom I love her,” said Abigail Alvarez Aguilar, a senior at CVHS. “Honestly,
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14 outstanding high school seniors from across Riverside County were awarded the Date Festival scholarship from Pickering Events LLC, the operators of the Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival, in recognition of the importance of the Fair to the community. The students participated in a month-long competition that considered their community involvement, scholastic achievement,
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The Coachella Valley Unified School District is getting ready to put together its school menu for next year. Today about 30 lucky students were able to give their honest opinion on some new possible items.The smells of hot delicious chicken fingers, quesadillas, and endless fries took over the cafeteria at Bobby Duke Middle School. “I’m
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College of the Desert Board of Trustees approved a motion today to combine aspects of two separate schematic designs for the proposed Palm Springs Campus Development Project. The motion was written and proposed by current Trustee and former COD Superintendent/President Dr. Joel Kinnamon, and reads as follows: Motion that the Palm Springs schematic design dated March
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There could be more fireworks when College of the Desert’s Board of Trustees meets Thursday. Trustees are being asked to approve the latest Palm Springs Campus Development Project Schematic Design. We’re getting a side-by-side look this week at Palm Springs Campus plans, produced this year, compared to those two years ago under former COD President Joel Kinnamon’s direction. It
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California won’t make children get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools, state public health officials said Friday, reversing a state policy first announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021. The nation’s most populous state plans to formally end its coronavirus emergency order on Feb. 28, ending some of Newsom’s authority to quickly alter
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College of the Desert is now providing free home internet to active students to complete their coursework and stay connected with COD while at home, according to the school’s website. The internet service provider will coordinate a home visit where they will deliver and set up the modem needed to provide your household basic internet. Service
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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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