Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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Tracy DeFore County of San Diego Communications Office Over 4,000 ballots are on their way to registered voters in Trustee Area One for the Sept. 19 Fallbrook Union High School District special election. Voters should receive their ballots the week of Monday, Aug. 21, with an "I Voted" sticker inside their official ballot packet. The person elected will fill Trustee Area One's vacant seat for the remainder of the current term ending in December 2026. Only those who live in...
FALLBROOK – On Thursday, May 4, 2023, at about 9:40 a.m., deputies from the Fallbrook Sheriff's Substation responded to Live Oak Elementary School after school staff alerted deputies of a possible school threat involving an explosive device. The threat was relayed via a social media post. Deputies responded to the school and conducted a security sweep of the campus with school staff. No suspicious devices were located, and no student was harmed. At this time, no arrests have been made and it is an active investigation. Lt. C...
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Union Elementary School District is recommending the approval of instructional materials in grades TK-8 in English Language Arts: 1. Benchmark Education Advance/Adelante, TK - 5th grade 2. McGraw-Hill’s StudySync, 6th - 8th grade The recommended curriculum has been reviewed and approved by a selection committee which was comprised of teachers in grades TK-8 as well as site and district level administration. The materials are available for public preview until June 25, at the FUESD office, 321 Iow...
SAN DIEGO - A judge has cleared the way for youth sporting activities, including football and basketball, to resume in San Diego County, hours after the state revised its guidelines to allow the activities in counties with relatively low rates of new COVID-19 cases. The state's new standard allows for a resumption of "outdoor high-contact sports'' in counties that reach an adjusted daily average of 14 new cases per 100,000 residents. San Diego County currently has a rate of...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Expressing optimism about COVID-19 vaccines and advancements in virus research, the University of California announced Monday, Jan. 11 that it is planning to return students to campuses for in-person instruction in the fall. The 10-campus system, including UC San Diego, has been holding primarily remote classes due to the coronavirus pandemic. University officials said they wanted to make an early announcement about fall classes so current and prospective students can plan accordingly. ``As the university...
The Fallbrook Union High School District Board of Trustees on Monday, Jan. 4 held a special meeting via teleconference for a work-study session to review and learn about governance protocols and standards. Because of the special meeting designation, no public comments were taken. Led by former interim superintendent Dr. Lou Obermeyer the work-study session covered ground-level topics such as the board's commitments and obligations, public service, effective governance,...
Students attending Bonsall Unified School District schools were anticipating a return to classrooms utilizing a hybrid model on Monday, Jan. 11. According to a letter released to parents on Thursday, Jan. 7, that won’t happen until later this month. “At this time, based upon our case rate data in the BUSD school community and the required time to quarantine, along with CDPH guidance criteria on case threshold, we are concerned with our schools being negatively impacted with the staffing to support in-person instruction,” said...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Two Cal State San Marcos professors were awarded a three-year, $830,000 grant from the National Institute of Health for a research project intended to help families support students intent on being science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors and increase diversity in STEM fields, it was announced Monday, Nov. 9. The grant, part of the NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, will fund Families for STEM Success. The project is intended to blend mathematics professor Kamel Haddad's vis...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The University of California failed to prevent student admissions based on improper influence and other inappropriate factors, according to a state audit released today, which found that more than five dozen applicants were unfairly admitted to four UC campuses, including UC San Diego. The audit, which examined admissions between the academic years of 2013-14 through 2018-19, found that UCSD, UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Santa Barbara admitted 64 applicants ``based on their personal or family connections to...
SAN MARCOS (CNS) - The majority of classes at Palomar College will remain online during the spring 2021 semester to remain in compliance with public health orders, college officials announced Friday, Sept. 18. ``The Palomar College community continues to do its part to slow the spread of this virus,'' said Interim Superintendent/President Jack Kahn. ``We will proceed in an abundance of caution, mindful of the fact that some courses need physical classroom time more than others and serve essential industries in our region.'' T...
Given that the county’s case rate for COVID-19 has been and appears likely to remain below 100 cases per every 100,000 residents, all schools in the region, kindergarten through 12th grade, could reopen for in-person instruction beginning Sept. 1. Schools that choose to reopen must follow the guidance for schools and school-based programs. The guidance applies to in-person learning and distance learning. “San Diegans have done a tremendous job in helping us to keep the local case rate below 100,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D.,...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Five local educators representing schools from Del Mar, Ramona, Valley Center, central San Diego and Lakeside were named San Diego County's Teachers of the Year Tuesday, Aug. 25 by the county's Office of Education. The teachers are: Arah Allard, Del Mar Hills Elementary School, Del Mar Union School District; Christine Hill, Ramona High School, Ramona Unified School District; Jose Melo, Valley Center Middle School, Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District; Paula Richardson, Wilson Middle School, San Diego...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Gov. Gavin Newsom Friday ordered all school campuses to remain closed when the academic year begins in counties on the state's monitoring list due to spiking coronavirus cases -- including San Diego, Riverside, Los Angeles and Orange counties. The order means districts across Southern California will begin the new school year with distance-learning programs, as opposed to in-person classes. The state's two largest districts, Los Angeles Unified and San Diego Unified, had already announced plans to begin the...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Amid spiking coronavirus cases, San Diego Unified School District campuses will remain closed when classes resume next month, Superintendent Cindy Marten said Monday, defying President Donald Trump's demand that students return to in-person instruction. The SDUSD on Monday issued a joint statement with the Los Angeles Unified School District, which also announced it will start the school year with online-only courses. In the statement, the districts acknowledged that schools have successfully reopened in...
Kim Harris Managing Editor After months of speculation as to what school reopening would look like at the start of the 2020-2021 school year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its guidelines focusing mainly on social distancing, recently. The guidelines, which included desks at least 6 feet apart and facing the same direction, lunch in classrooms, staggered arrival times, cloth masks for staff and daily temperature screenings for everyone, were part of a...
SAN MARCOS (CNS) - As campus is shuttered and classes prepare to move online, Palomar College gave 344 students a computer and food to help during the quarantine, it announced on Thursday. The college is transitioning to online classes starting March 30, but hundreds of students drove up or walked on Wednesday to receive a laptop donated by the college, Darlene Shiley and nonprofit Computers2Kids. According to college staff, so many cars lined up to get into the distribution point in the front parking lots of the college, tha...
FALLBROOK – The Child Nutrition Program from Fallbrook Union Elementary School District is offering free meals to all children ages 18 and under starting Monday, March 16. No forms or registration are required. Children can stay in the car during the drive through process. They must be present to receive a meal. Locations for meal pick up, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., are as follows: Maie Ellis Elementary, 400 W Elder St., Fallbrook William H Frazier Elementary, 1835 Gum Tree Lane, Fallbrook La Paloma Elementary, 300 Heald Lane, F...
Dec. 20 3100 block S. Old Highway 395 Stolen vehicle 300 block Sky Vista Wy Petty theft 2000 block James Gaynor St Vehicle burglary 100 block N. Ridge Dr Grand theft Dec. 21 900 block Canyon Heights Rd Arrest: Domestic battery, child cruelty N. Main Ave @ E. Ivy St Arrest: Outstanding felony warrant E. College St @ S. Main Ave Arrest: Public intoxication 700 block S. Wisconsin Ave Vehicle vandalism Dec. 22 100 block S. Mercedes Rd Arrest: Public intoxication 35200 block Rice Canyon Rd Arrest: Domestic abuse 2900 block Overlan...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The California State University will honor a student from both Cal State San Marcos and San Diego State University on Tuesday, Sept. 24 as recipients of the 2019 Trustees' Award for Outstanding Achievement. CSUSM biological sciences major Jeff Jaureguy and SDSU electrical and computer engineering major Tyler Perez are two of 23 students to be honored as Trustees' Award recipients during the first day of the two-day CSU Board of Trustees meeting in Long Beach. The awards include scholarships of up to $12,000...
Fallbrook High School was ranked No. 909 in California and No. 6,957 in the nation in U.S. News and World Report’s 2019 U.S. News Best High Schools rankings released on Tuesday, April 30. Additionally, alternative high school, Oasis High, ranked No. 1,160 in California and No. 11,179 in the nation. The U.S. News rankings were developed with the research firm, RTI International, using six indicators — college readiness, college curriculum breadth, Math and reading proficiency, math and reading performance, underserved stu...
