Latest News

Source: Santa Barbara Unified School District   Welcome back message Spanish/EnglishDear Families of SB Unified: We extend our heartfelt care and concern to you as we navigate this global crisis together. We can announce that [...]

Source: Santa Barbara Unified School District The Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education approved the appointment of Valerie Galindo as the next principal for Roosevelt Elementary, effective July 1, 2020. Ms. Galindo has [...]

Dear SB Unified Families and Staff, These are truly unprecedented times for all of us.  In my lifetime, I have experienced a significant moment about every twenty years – the assassination of JFK (1963), the [...]

Source: Santa Barbara Unified School District We are pleased to announce the hiring of Matthew Dittman as SB Unified’s new Director of Food Services. Dittman has been in the restaurant industry for nearly 20 years, [...]

Source: Santa Barbara Unified School District   Dear SB Unified Families, Thank you for your patience in these uncertain times. Our district office team has been actively formulating short- and long-term plans for instruction that [...]

Source: Santa Barbara Unified School District MEALS PROVIDED DURING SCHOOL CLOSURE SE VA A PROVEER COMIDA DURANTE CLAUSURA DE LAS ESCUELAS Beginning Monday, March 16th, all schools within Santa Barbara Unified School District will be [...]

Source: Santa Barbara Unified School District   Attention families, staff and students of SB Unified: We are forwarding you an important message from Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Susan Salcido that reflects the [...]

Source: Santa Barbara Unified School District   Attention SB Unified families and staff, We are providing you with an important message from Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Susan Salcido that reflects the collaboration [...]

San Marcos, Santa Barbara, and Dos Pueblos high school Mock Trial teams are progressing into the next round of the 37th annual Mock Trial competition, to be held this Saturday, February 29, at the Santa [...]

Congratulations to our very own Maria Larios-Horton, Director of English Learner and Parent Engagement Programs, who was selected by Future Leaders of America to receive the Latino Legacy Award. She will be honored at an awards [...]

A Q & A Interview with Dos Pueblos High School Principal By Sarah Jang, 2019/2020 ASB President Dos Pueblos High School Principal Bill Woodard has led Dos Pueblos High for 5 years and can always [...]

Source: Santa Barbara Independent Despite its seemingly ripe potential as an entertainment destination, Santa Barbara has a surprisingly slender history of jazz festival action, including a several-year effort on the beach in the late ’80s/early [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]