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Members of the Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Trustees invite you to a community forum to share your input on what qualities our next superintendent should possess. When: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm, Monday, Feb. 24 Where: La Cumbre Junior High School, Jo Ann Caines Theatre ALL ARE WELCOME * INTERPRETATION SERVICES PROVIDED

Thanks to kindergarten teacher Ellen Hunter, students at Monroe Elementary are becoming experts on food waste management through a popular, lunchtime program that has them monitoring cafeteria food and trash to ensure everything is routed to the right place. The program has been a smash success, and even recently earned a $4,500 grant that will [...]

Source: Santa Barbara News-Press If public school teachers want something done, that almost always means reaching into their own pockets to see it through. Around 94% of teachers report personally funding necessary school supplies, a 2018 Department of Education survey found. That’s $479 of their own salaries going back into the classroom ―- until now. [...]

Santa Barbara School Board Trustees have hired McPherson & Jacobson, L.L.C. as the consulting firm to handle the district’s search for a new superintendent. Cary Matsuoka, who has served as the Santa Barbara schools’ chief for the past four years, will retire in June. The Omaha, Nebraska-based firm has been conducting national searches for governing [...]