Palisades Charter High School students back in class for 1st time since being displaced by fires

Google, YouTube Donate $3M to Restore Education Tech to Fire-Affected Schools

Google and YouTube announced Wednesday they are providing $3 million in funds to help restore access to technology and digital learning for students, teachers and schools impacted by the January wildfires. Part of the donation will go to the Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation, a philanthropic partner of the county Office of Education, to provide more than 3,000 Chromebooks to students. Google and YouTube will also take part in a matching c…

Students in California return to school following L.A. wildfires

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (NBC, KYMA/KECY) - For the first time since the Palisades Fire tore through Southern California, hundreds of Los Angeles area students are back in class, but not in school. Rather, in a former Sears store. "We're starting school for the first time after the Palisades fire," said Clara, an 11th grade student at Palisades Charter High School. When asked how she feels about going back to school, Clara said, "Kinda crazy, cuz we…

Palisades Charter High School students back in class for 1st time since being displaced by fires

An old Sears building in Santa Monica has been transformed into a temporary learning space for more than 2,000 Palisades Charter High School students.

After the Wildfires, This High School Needed a Campus. It Found a Sears.

For the foreseeable future, a school that burned during the fires in Los Angeles this year will call a retrofitted Sears home. Students and teachers at Palisades Charter High School have met online since a wildfire swept through Pacific Palisades in January and decimated their school building and many of their homes. On Tuesday, they gathered in person at their school’s temporary new home in nearby Santa Monica, where they hugged, cried and navi…

'My dad bought his college mattress here.' Palisades Charter High students move into former Sears

It has been more than three months since Palisades Charter High School was burned in the Palisades Fire. City leaders, the school district and others have been working to find a solution for the students. They found it at the former Sears building in Santa Monica, now being called Pali South. California Wildfires Apr 19 Member…

Preserving the Past: USACE Supports Mission to Recover Fire-Surviving Artifacts

When the Southern California wildfires began to rage on Jan. 7, many in the Altadena and Pasadena areas tuned in to their TVs to watch the flames live from the Palisades and Malibu on the other side of Los Angeles. Never in their wildest dreams did they imagine they would be battling blazes of their own.