Schools

Arming Kids to Resist Pressure to Drink By Kate Rogers, Special to the Independent   Brenda Conlan acted as a lightning rod for community angst around “social...

Laguna Beach High School junior Alia Manetta received the Violet Richardson Award from the Soroptimist International of the Newport Harbor Area earlier this month.   The...

Authors to Visit El Morro   Neil Klayman and Barry Chung, author and illustrator of “Boris Ate a Thesaurus”, will visit El Morro School on April...

Thurston Students Win PTA Competition   Thurston Middle School students, eighth-graders Austin Fickman and Molly McMillen, recently received awards in the PTA Reflections contest in the...

SchoolPower’s 27th annual dinner dance on March 3 raised a record $330,000 for Laguna’s four public schools.   President Marcus Skenderian called the gala "an amazing...

Brenda Conlan’s truthful account of her own adolescence, derailed by early addiction to drugs, gives special credibility to her presentation as the featured speaker...

Helping Parents Identify Depression, Anxiety and Eating Disorders   An upcoming parent education workshop at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 20, focuses on identifying symptoms of adolescent...

Students in Pam MacKay’s photography class at Laguna Beach High School last week welcomed a guest teacher, professional photographer and local parent Cari Lightfoot...

For more than a decade, Laguna Beach High School’s workability program has provided career guidance to students with individual education plans, such as those...

Award for a Local Young Talent   Songwriter and performer Jade Nicoletti, 10, an El Morro Elementary student, placed second the state PTA Reflections contest at...

Thurston Middle School’s student actors will be performing “Up The Down Staircase” a look at student life in a New York City public school,...

Twenty functional but obsolete laptops used by Thurston Middle School students were donated by the district to the Laguna Beach Boys and Girls Club. Though...

Six Afghan orphans traveling the U.S. for 10 weeks stopped in Laguna Beach over the weekend for a sample of beach culture.   Fifteen students from...

When school resumes after the mid-winter break, the high school’s girls softball team will warm up on their home softball field at Thurston Middle...

Campus Re-Opens for Night Session   Arts Night at Top of the World Elementary earlier this month drew 330 families.   The school’s multipurpose room was successfully transformed...