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Category Archives: Schools
Canyon Elementary Classroom Replacement Project to Start
Residents, parents and staff of Canyon Charter Elementary School received a notice that LAUSD will begin work on the first phase of replacing Department of Housing (DOH) portable buildings on that campus. Portable buildings were brought onto LAUSD campuses in...
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Palisades High School Applies for Federal Paycheck Program; Salaries for 78 Teachers Top $95,000
Palisades High School is a fiscally independent charter high school that rents its facilities from the Los Angeles Unified School District Unlike LAUSD regular schools or affiliated charters, such as Palisades Elementary,Marquez Charter and Canyon School, PaliHi receives funding directly...
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PaliHi Teacher Jamie Agius Fulfills Goal of Becoming A Humanitarian–By Making Covid-19 Masks at Home
If your dream is to be a humanitarian and work for the United Nations, the quest ought to be attainable with the right motivation, the proper college degrees and hard work. Then life intervenes, and instead you become a different...
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Pacific Palisades Parent Pleads Guilty in Ongoing College Admissions Scandal
According to Sunday’s Washington Post (“Another Parent Is Charged in College Admissions Scandal, Will Admit to Efforts to Get Son into Georgetown”) Pacific Palisades resident Peter Dameris is the 54th person charged in the admissions scandal dubbed “Varsity Blues” and the...
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The Lost Art of Letter Writing and How (and Why) to Encourage Kids to Do More Writing
For Mother’s Day, I requested a dessert called “Blarneys” that my grandma Agnes Sazama used to make. This tasty little yellow cake is wrapped in a buttercream frosting and then rolled in peanuts. I recently re-discovered the recipe in a handwritten...
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PaliHi Grad Sasha Engelmann Melds Artistic Pursuits & Environmentalism
By LAUREL BUSBY Special to CTN You might call Sasha Engelmann, a Renaissance woman. Like Leonardo Da Vinci, the 2007 Palisades High graduate has always been intrigued by both art and science. In high school, she studied photography, the humanities...
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Public Schools Plan to Restart on August 18; Board Member Nick Melvoin Addresses the Issue
LAUSD School Board Member Nick Melvoin was a member of State Senator Ben Allen’s Virtual Town Hall on May 6 at 5:30. He and Allen joined Congressman Ted Lieu and Councilman Mike Bonin to answer questions about public decisions being...
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Coping with Covid-19: A Teen’s Middle-School Perspective
By CHAZ PLAGER Special to Circling the News In my opinion, there are three kinds of people dealing with Covid-19. The first are extroverts who are going crazy while stuck inside, and some are spending every waking moment protesting. The...
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Catching Up with Readers: A Correction and an Explanation
EVERYBODY VOTE BY MAIL? A CORRECTION: In my May 4 Musings, I wrote: L.A. County Supervisors voted unanimously on May 5 to send vote-by-mail ballots to every person registered for the November general election (six months away), citing concerns about Covid-19 and...
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Help Purchase a Yearbook for Every Palisades High School Senior in Need
When you graduated from high school, most likely you purchased a yearbook. Many of you still have that annual and appreciate how important it was to commemorate your senior year. In particular, the Class of 2020 at Palisades High, thanks...
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