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MoveOn.org Makes a New Move with SignOn.org
Interested in testing a new tool that lets anyone start their own MoveOn-style petition ? You can be among the first to try it out. From the folks at MoveOn, it’s called SignOn.org, and it’s …
Month: September 2011
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Sign On to CCEF’s “All for 1” with Signage
Show your support for Culver City Schools with a “We Support Culver City Schools” yard sign. The suggested donation is $1 per day (that’s $30 a month for ten months, $300 a family), or with …
Homes With Heart by Heather Coombs-Perez
Homes with Heart – Heather Coombs-Perez
It’s always amazing to me how quickly the summer seems to fly by. For readers with kids, the arrival of Labor Day brings a return to the familiar routine of school, work, extracurricular activities and …
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Turning Restrictions for School Traffic
Parents and others visiting the CCUSD Office of Child Development, Culver City Middle School Culver City High School and Farragut Elementary School should be aware that drivers will no longer be allowed to make a …
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Test Scores Make the Grade
Culver City Unified School District announces significant gains in student performance on the Academic Index (API), the state measurement of how schools are performing. The state target is 800, and CCUSD scored a 834 during …
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Malsin Considers Alternate Solutions in Benefit Crunch
In my first article on Culver City labor issues I wrote about why changes in the City’s retirement plan which take effect on January 1st, 2012 are likely to force a large percentage of our …
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PBS Arts Loves Steampunk
Available online starting today, PBS Arts continues its new interactive series, ‘Off Book’, with a short film dedicated to Steampunk art and the new and exciting directions it is taking. Click www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6-AmXihFsU Steampunk art evokes …
Looking Up by Bob Eklund
Looking Up – Bob Eklund
Jupiter-Bound Space Probe Captures Earth and Moon On its way out to Jupiter, the biggest planet in the Solar System, NASA’s Juno spacecraft took time to capture an image of its home planet and Earth’s …