March 4, 2010 RSS feed / Schools

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WHS student’s Brain Connections offers help to elementary kids

Her community service project fills a gap
By Joann Groff joann@theacorn.com
After her freshman year at Westlake High School, Hanna Mandell decided she’d like to get involved in a community service project. More...

Register for preschool at open house

Conejo Valley Neighborhood for Learning will host a “Come SEA Us!” child care open house and registration event, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sat., March 13 at the Neighborhood for Learning City Center, 110 S. More...

Getting it together on two wheels

PEAK PERFORMANCE IN BALANCE AND COORDINATION—Connor Walk, 14, of Newbury Park competes in the 11- to 14year-old division during a BMX contest at the skate park near Borchard Communit More...

Boosters host golf

The Thousand Oaks High School Boys’ Basketball Booster Club will host a golf tournament on Mon., March 15 at North Ranch Country Club, 4761 Valley Spring Drive, Westlake Village. More...

Author to speak at Moorpark College

Jeff Shaara, award-winning author of nine best-selling novels about American history, will be this year’s distinguished speaker in a Teaching American History event Thurs., March 4 at Moorpark High School’s Performing Arts Center More...

School budgets to be examined

By Stephanie Bertholdo bertholdo@theacorn.com

The California Teachers Association (CTA) is staging an information campaign today, March 4, at schools across the state to explain to parents how the state’s education budget cuts are affecting their students. More...

High School Hi-Lights

Newbury Park Panthers Fri., March 5: Tenth-grade registration/7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sat., March 6: IB dance concert/ performing arts center/2 p.m. More...

Basketball boosters will offer 3-on-3 tournament

The Thousand High School Boys’ Basketball Booster Club will present a 3-on-3 tournament for boys and girls in grades three to eight Sun., March 21 at Thousand Oaks High School, 2323 Moorpark Road, Thousand Oaks. More...

Artists compete

Artist Amanda Shi, 13, of Newbury Park, has qualified for the state PTA Reflections competition.  Amanda’s artwork qualified for the state contest due to her placing in several local competitions. More...

Nobel laureate speaks in T.O.

SPECIALIST IN MICROFINANCE— Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, is the author of “Creating a World Without Poverty,” CSU More...