After losing the first set, the boys volleyball team comes back to beat Esperanza Tuesday night. They'll now face No. 1 nationwide ranked Loyola in a showdown for the CIF Southern Section Division I title Saturday night.
The MIra Costa High boys volleyball team defeats Dana Hills at home Saturday in a CIF Southern Section Division I quarterfinal match.
The third-seeded Mira Costa boys volleyball team will have the home court advantage Tuesday at 7 p.m. when they play second-seeded Esperanza, a team that beat them in mid-April with a 25-23, 25-20, 25-23 win in the finals of the Karch Kiraly Tournament of Champions in Santa Barbara. That loss was the last time the Mustangs have gone down to the competition, winning 14 matches in a row. Saturday night at home, the team was victorious against the Dana Hills Dolphins, 26-28, 25-20, 25-20, 25-1, in a CIF Southern Section Division I quarterfinal match, advancing to the semi-final match against Esperanza. “This (playing Esperanza Tuesday night) will be a grudge match for us,” MCHS senior Kevin Inlow told the Easy Reader. “We know what they’re …
The Redondo Beach Board of Education approves a memorandum of understanding with the city to bring drug-sniffing dogs to Redondo Union High School.
With a 3-2 vote, the Redondo Beach Board of Education approved a memorandum of understanding with the city of Redondo Beach on Tuesday night that paves the way to bring drug-sniffing dogs to Redondo Union High School. Board members Drew Gamet and Todd Loewenstein dissented. According to Assistant Superintendent Frank DeSena, the Redondo Beach Unified School District has been ready to have the drug dogs at the high school since the beginning of the year; however, City Manager Bill Workman recommended the district and the city sign a memorandum of understanding. "The initial plan was in January of 2012 we would start using the drug-sniffing dogs at Redondo Union High School, and we were ready to proceed," DeSena said. "It just took a long …
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The publication measures Mira Costa against other high schools in California and the U.S.
Mira Costa High School has ranked 72nd among high schools in California, according to U.S. News & World Report, and 400th nationwide. The online news publication released its annual list of the "Best High Schools" in the country Tuesday. The report ranks two of the three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula higher than Manhattan Beach's Mira Costa: Palos Verdes Peninsula High School ranked 23rd among California high schools and 137th nationwide; Palos Verdes High School ranked 53rd in California and 266th nationwide. Mira Costa High School National Ranking: 400 California Ranking: 72 College Readiness Index: 49.1 Academic Performance Index: 899 Student/Teacher Ratio: 25:1 The top five schools in California, respectively, …
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Office wins competitive bid that was part of state-wide program.
The Los Angeles County Office of Education will receive $40,500 in state funds to enforce tobacco-free school policies and collect data on the prevalence of tobacco use and other behaviors that put students' health at risk, state officials announced today. More than $410,000 in Tobacco Use Prevention Education dollars from the state Department of Education went to 30 districts across California. The winners in TUPE competitive bidding demonstrated the greatest tobacco-use prevention efforts, and proposed programs that will likely be effective, said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson. "Schools can help our kids learn to avoid dangerous behaviors - including tobacco use - early," Torlakson said. TUPE is a three-year, $…
Students from Mis Amigos Spanish enrichment program at Hermosa View School perform and share Mexican culture.
On Friday, May 4, students at Hermosa View School got a fun look at Mexican culture in honor of Cinco de Mayo. Students from the after school Spanish Enrichment Program at the school performed folklorico dances and sang La Bamba and Cielito Lindo for the rest of the student body. The Mis Amigos program is run and taught by parent Monica Linnell, who was born in Mexico. She started the program in 2009 as a way to build bridges and expose children to other languages. "It started as a volunteer position," she said about the program. She is currently teaching 16 students conversational Spanish. "I saw the need for the program because of the cuts in language education." Friday's program not only featured posters about the holiday, which …
Forty-one girls have been selected to lead songs and cheers at community events and school activities for the 2012-2013 school year. And, they've already begun to cheer others on.
If you get out and about in Manhattan Beach, you're pretty much guaranteed to see the Mira Costa High School Pep Squad leading cheers and songs at school, community and competitive activities. Yes, "Rah, Rah, Sis Boom Bah" in the hands of MCHS students is about the best it can get. And now, members for the 2012-13 school year have been announced and include: The new squad is already busy: They will begin their community outreach at the Grand View Gator Run on June 2, host a summer cheer camp July 16-20 at MCHS and continue providing sideline leadership and spirit throughout the school year at every football, basketball and volleyball game. For more information about the Mira Costa Pep Squad or to register for the summer cheer camp, go to…
Anger over contract talks has faculty planning rolling two day strike at local schools, including CSU Dominguez Hills and CSU Long Beach.
California State University teachers voted overwhelmingly to authorize two-day rolling strikes at the system's 23 campuses in response to what their union calls needlessly drawn-out contract negotiations. The vote by members of the California Faculty Association does not necessarily mean a strike will be called, it is just an authorization for the union's leadership to call one. "We have said all along that we do not want to strike, but we will if that is what is necessary," CFA President Lillian Taiz, a history professor at Cal State Los Angeles, said. She added that the union's membership has "run out of patience" with the contract talks, and have "had enough of executives putting themselves about the needs of the students and of the …
Community members demonstrate their commitment to the Richstone Family Center by walking from pier to pier and back in Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach. The annual fundraiser receives support from local elementary, middle and high school students in addi
More than $150,000 was raised in support of the Richstone Family Center with the help of the participants of this year's 25th Annual Richstone Walk, which took place on Sunday, April 28. Walkers, consisting of school children, business owners and friends, traversed the ground from the Manhattan Beach Pier to the Hermosa Beach Pier and back again.
Winning students from Hermosa View and Hermosa Valley Schools receive certificates for their anti-littering posters.
The children gathered around MRFy (pronounced Murphy), a robot brought along by Consolodated Disposal to last week's Hermosa Beach City Council meeting to help honor the 11 winning students for their anti-litter posters. Over 350 students from Hermosa View and Hermosa Valley schools had submitted entries, with the winners being pulled from each grade, from kindergarten through eighth. Mayor Jeff Duclos pointed out that businesses along Pier Avenue have agreed to display the artwork in their windows. "We'd like to honor them tonight," he said about the winning entries. The competition was sponsored by education group Grades to Green and Consolidated Disposal (a subsidiary of Republic Services) as part of Earth Month. "We just kinda got an …
Carrie Cook
7:59 am on Thursday, May 3, 2012
Barry Munitz was fired from the Getty Musuem for excess spending, things like the Porshe he purchased with Getty money lavish dinners with stars, etc. He went back to the Cal State system and is is currently the trustee professor at Cal State L.A., with full professorial tenure in the Department of English, and serves as an advisor to the Charter College of Education. He never lost his retirement… more ›