In early April, Dr. Kelly May-Vollmar was appointed Desert Sands Unified School District’s new superintendent by the Board of Education. Her first day will be on July 1. In the meantime, the 18-year...
In the month of March, the California mask mandate was lifted. The change allowed everyone, vaccinated or not, to choose between wearing a mask. As soon as that happened, the DSUSD Board of Education made...
One of 2022's annual Desert Town Hall events took place on March 30. The event featured two award-winning photographers, Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier, who inspired many aspiring students that...
Throughout the month of January, there was a surge of absences in classrooms, mostly due to COVID-19 cases and other unknown reasons.
According to Kelly Perlo, the student attendance specialist at...
After returning from winter break, COVID-19 cases had a massive spike due to the Omicron variant. Students and teachers were absent and forced to quarantine due to exposure and positive tests. With the...
Update, Friday, April 8 -- The proposed bell schedule that includes two periods of office hours on both block days passed for the 2022-2023 school year; it received 74% of the vote and 93% of staff voted....
From January to February, KEY Club collected feminine hygiene products for the Her Drive.
Her Drive is a Chicago non-profit organization that launched in June 2020. It provides valuable items for...
The conversation on distance and hybrid learning started up again at the beginning of the second semester with the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Back in January, schools around the country...
For the spring semester of 2022, College of the Desert offered a grant of $100 per unit. Both credit and non-credit courses are eligible, thanks to the U.S. Department of Education.
A grant is money...
Every day the sun rises, casting beautiful light upon the school’s outdoor cafeteria. The area is clean, washed down with a hose from the previous day.
But once the bell rings, the trashing...
Students and teachers have officially transitioned into the new 2021-2022 school year in- person after a year-and-a-half of remote and hybrid instruction.
This dramatic transition has brought many...
On the morning of November 2, La Quinta High School student Ethaniel Draper ‘24 had gone into the office to get a temporary tardy slip after forgetting his that morning. By the time he had left, a domino...
