The Los Angeles board of education has voted to require students 12 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus if they attend in-person classes in the nation’s second-largest school district. The board’s vote Thursday makes Los Angeles by far the largest of a very small number of districts with a vaccine requirement. Nearby Culver
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Update 9/9/21 PSUSD spokesperson Joan Boiko has confirmed that in-person classes will resume at Rancho Mirage High School on Friday. Classes were canceled on Thursday after an issue with the air conditioning system. That issue has since been resolved. Original Report – 9/8/21 The Palm Springs Unified School District announced that in-person classes at Rancho
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Millions of dollars in pandemic relief funds are on full display at schools across the valley. One of the lawmakers behind the help, Congressman Raul Ruiz, visited Andrew Jackson Elementary in Indio on Wednesday to see firsthand how students and teachers have been able to safely start the school year. “It’s good that our children
Continue ReadingAs COVID-19 cases continue to rise, some families are considering taking their kids out of the classroom and searching for schooling options from home. “We had very big concerns about what was going to happen with our kids since they’re so little. We’ve been very cautious with them,” said Priscilla Waggoner. Waggoner is a Bermuda
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Coachella Valley students are officially back to in-person learning, after more than a year of remote education. The new school year represents a chance for the COVID generation to regain lost opportunities that they missed out on in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Being back is really nice, its refreshing,” said Valeria Gutierrez Senior
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The Palm Springs Unified School District has approved negotiations of law enforcement agreements with the cities of Desert Hot Springs, Cathedral City, Palm Springs, and Riverside County to bring back school resource officers. This process is fluid and the details have yet to be worked out. During the meeting, it was discussed that PSUSD would
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For the first time since the start of the pandemic a year and a half ago, students are back inside classrooms at the Cal State San Bernardino Palm Desert campus. Monday marked the first day of the fall semester at the Palm Desert campus. The campus was bustling with energy and activities for students pursuing
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After a difficult year of isolation, several social and extracurricular activities are resuming at valley schools. “It’s very important. It’s connectedness to the school. It’s been very long since our students have had that opportunity,” said Deanna Keuilian, Director of Secondary Curriculum and Instruction, PSUSD. “It’s being able to get a sense of normalcy and
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A Desert Sands Unified School District meeting got a bit rowdy Tuesday night, Most parents in attendance spoke out against the state’s mandate to have all students wear mask in school. At one point, the crowd booed a person speaking out in favor of mask-wearing, prompting board president Donald B. Griffith to issue this warning: “Ok listen
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For students like Anthony Martinez, this is the first time he will be stepping into a classroom, at a completely new school since March 2020. Martinez is a 7th grader at Jefferson Middle School in Indio. He started middle school for the first time, meeting his friends and teachers through a computer screen. While it
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It’s Desert Sands Unified School District’s (DSUSD) turn to welcome students back to the classroom this week, and many children are coming back to a school makeover. Over $113 million dollars has been spent to significantly improve the schools across DSUSD. At Kennedy Elementary School, the entire school, which was built in 1965, was remodeled.
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Students in the Desert Sands Unified School District return to classrooms next week. The district’s nearly 90 new staff members continued to learn the ropes in an orientation held this morning. Teachers, counselors, and a few nurses all attended the orientation. The topics includes learning how to run their classrooms, take attendance, and how to
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43 students and 13 staff members of the Palm Springs Unified School District are infected with COVID-19. The Palm Springs Unified School District released the latest figures on its website. The district has added an active case tracker to its website “to provide our PSUSD families and staff with a summary of campus COVID-19 cases.”
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For 75% of the students at Coachella Valley Unified School District (CVUSD), Thursday is going to be the first time they see the inside of a classroom after being forced into distanced learning for over a year. Students had to learn from behind a computer screen starting March of 2020. Schools at CVUSD are making
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Several protective policies are in place as students are heading back to campus this fall — including certain changes when it comes to your child’s transportation. “A lot of the things that we did in the summer and hybrid are going to stay the same,” said Robert Spinuzza, Coordinator of Transportation, PSUSD. As COVID-19 cases
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The students at Coachella Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) are making a return to the classroom this week, after being one of the only districts in the area that chose to not return to in-person learning last year. This year, students can expect a new curriculum. Students left the classroom in March of 2020 due
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After a difficult year, students around the Coachella Valley area going back into the classrooms but there are still some questions as the first day of school approaches. All three superintendents for the valley’s school districts joined Peter Daut to answer your questions about students going back to school.
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Wednesday is the first day of school for students across Palm Springs Unified School District (PSUSD), and students and school staff are eager to get back into the classroom. Last year, the first day of the school year was spent behind a computer screen, as the pandemic wreaked havoc on people’s normal routine. While some
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The pandemic may have put a halt to most things, but not the construction at schools across Palm Springs Unified School District. The district spent nearly 66 million dollars over the course of the last two years for necessary upgrades at its campuses. Taking most of the bill, Palm Springs High School which students said,
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There is now some relief for those who are aspiring to become teachers, as a new state budget cuts the requirements for two of the tests required to earn a credential. This move is a game changer for districts and those who wish to become educators. Teacher candidates no longer have to take the California
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