The federal government is launching an investigation into allegations that the Loleta Elementary School District has discriminated against Native American students. The Americans Civil Liberties Union of Northern California received a letter this week from the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights informing it that the office has officially launched an investigation […]
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ACLU Suing Eureka City Schools for Racial and Sexual Discrimination
Native American and black students face racial and sexual discrimination from students and staff in Eureka and Loleta according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed today by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the National Center for Youth Law. The suit alleges that top officials in the Eureka City Schools District […]
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Beyond the Scandal
Voter enthusiasm for school board elections is typically pretty low — unless your board happens to have a raging plagiarism scandal. Such is the case in the Northern Humboldt Union High School District, where board members have spent the past four months dealing with fallout from fellow trustee Dan Johnson’s plagiarized speech at Arcata High […]
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Arcata Student Receives Prestigious Invitation to Princeton Symposium
Nicolas Krell, a senior at Arcata’s Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy, was recently invited to be one of just 90 outstanding student artists and scholars from across the country to attend Princeton University’s Creative Arts and Humanities Symposium. The goal of the symposium, which runs September 27-29, is to “reinforce interest in the creative […]
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Journal Interviews Chris Lehman, Your Fresh-Faced Candidate for State Senate
About an hour after announcing his run for State Senate, Chris Lehman, an Arcata family man and, at the tender age of 36, a Sacramento insider, sat down with the Journal for a croissant sandwich and coffee (in his own mug) at Ramone’s in Old Town. Bottom line? The guy’s prepped and ready to go. […]
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Speaking Yurok in the LAT
The Los Angeles Times writes about a new Yurok language program at Eureka High School, launched last fall, making EH “the fifth and largest school in Northern California to launch a Yurok-language program” and “marking the latest victory in a Native American language revitalization program widely lauded as the most successful in the state.” The […]
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False Gun Report Tempts Fortuna High Students to Bring Guns to School
Class was canceled at Fortuna High School yesterday after the Fortuna Police Department received a report that a student planned to bring a weapon to campus and possibly “engage in acts of violence.” The report turned out to be false, but as the press release below reports, some Fortuna High students reacted by suggesting they […]
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CR to Cut 39 Positions in Reorganization Plan
Press release from College of the Redwoods: In a move made to address College of the Redwoods’ fiscal solvency and accreditation standards, the CR Board of Trustees on Tuesday, Dec. 4 voted unanimously to eliminate 39 staff and management positions and approved a reorganization plan that also removes two senior-level administrative positions, which will be discontinued […]
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Local Students Vote For Obama
More than a thousand students from a dozen Humboldt County schools participated in a statewide student mock election, and the local voters of tomorrow preferred President Barack Obama to Republican challenger Mitt Romney by a landslide. Obama earned 58.1 percent of the vote (673 of 1,159) among participating students from local elementary, middle and high […]
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M. Night in the Classroom
You’ve undoubtedly heard that the famous director M. Night Shyamalan was in Humboldt recently making a movie called After Earth with the famous actor Will Smith and his son Jaden. You may have read, in passing, about the director’s visit with a group of young, local filmmakers. Here’s the inside story on that close encounter, written […]
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Report Highlights Local Need for Child Care
Have we mentioned before how badass is the California Center for Rural Policy (CCRP)? No? Well, it is. The research center, located on the campus of Humboldt State University, aims to improve the health and well-being of rural people (like us) through the power of data. The center’s previous reports have addressed rural Internet connectivity, […]
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“This Is the Future”
It’s finally complete. After years of operating a state-of-the-art alternative energy lab in a collection of dilapidated buildings in the back of Humboldt State’s now-empty University Annex, the Schatz Energy Research Center moved into its new digs on Friday, celebrating with the grand opening with the requisite speeches and an open house. The brand new […]