The financial landscape painted by Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget for the 2024-2025 school year took center stage in a Coronado Unified School District (CUSD) board meeting on March 14, prompting discussions on strategic adjustments and budget cuts. Key updates highlighted in the 2023-2024 Second Interim Budget Report include a $256,675 cut in revenue projections, […]
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Coronado Unified considers appealing $4.5 million verdict payment following civil trial
Editor’s note: the story was revised after the district put out new information on March 15. Coronado Unified School District is being held responsible for paying $4.5 million in damages to a former basketball student athlete. Following a civil trial regarding a former school employee who admitted to a felony sex crime involving an underage […]
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Budget cuts jeopardize Coronado Unified employee jobs
The Coronado Unified School District governing board has begun preparing to notify district employees that their jobs may be terminated due to budget cuts. A handful of positions and services are at risk, according to the more than six full-time positions and services outlined by the district, but only a fraction of total number of […]
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Leap Year through the eyes of Silver Strand students
Disclaimer: The interviews for this story were conducted the week of Leap Day, yet prior to the actual day. Every four years, February gets an extra day, courtesy of the Gregorian calendar phenomenon known as Leap Year. In light of the quirky occasion, four Silver Strand Elementary School students share their initial thoughts on Leap […]
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Coronado Unified discusses California’s budget deficit, responds to Jan. 22 rainfall
Coronado Unified School District (CUSD) Superintendent Karl Mueller said on Feb. 15 that with California facing a $68 billion deficit, the schools’ budgets will have to be tightened in the coming year. CUSD anticipates its cost-of-living adjustment (CoLA) to decrease from four percent to 0.76%, representing an over-one-million-dollar shortfall to what the district budgeted for. […]
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Silver Strand Special Education program sees growth, CHS welcomes new assistant principal
During the Coronado Unified School District (CUSD) meeting on Jan. 18, the school board heard from Silver Strand Elementary School Principal Jennifer Moore and recognized new and retiring employees. The Board of Trustees also approved a $198,860 contract to purchase and install a walk-in refrigeration/freezer combo using Child Nutrition Program grant funds, which Trustee Whitney […]
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Toni Trinidad January Emerald Keeper Of The Month
Emerald Keepers is pleased to honor Toni Trinidad as the Emerald Keeper of the Month for January. As the Innovation Lab (iLab) teacher for Village Elementary School, Toni is familiar with educating the technologically apt generation, but she’s also nurturing students’ love for nature by utilizing the Emerald Keepers’ website in her lessons. Toni was […]
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Coronado High welcomes Assistant Principal Tim Kusserow
Coronado Unified School District has named Tim Kusserow as the new Coronado High School Assistant Principal. Kusserow is an innovative and experienced educational leader who brings decades of teaching and administrative experience to the position. He will join CHS Principal Karin Mellina and Assistant Principal Rikki Betancourt on the high school’s leadership team. “We are […]
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Coronado teens ask Newsom, Biden to declare state of emergency
Gavin Newsom and Joe Biden each got a letter from Coronado High School kids early this month, pleading for help to stop the contamination of San Diego County beaches with sewage from Tijuana. “We need you to declare a state of emergency” are the pleas from Coronado’s youth that made their way first to the […]
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Alexia Palacios-Peters brings Navy experience to 2024 CUSD president
Ringing in the new year coupled with a birthday, former educator Alexia Palacios-Peters begins a new chapter in her sphere of local civic engagement. Scrolling through a screen’s palette of blue, purple, red and green rows in the monthly view of her Google calendar, the mother, lawyer and military spouse shares how she will continue […]
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Discover Coronado named sponsor of Coronado Art & Wine Festival
The city’s official destination marketing organization makes a $45,000 investment in Coronado Schools Foundation.
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CoSA invites art lovers to “The Box,” a visual arts exhibit on Jan. 18
The Coronado School of the Arts (CoSA) Visual Arts Conservatory welcomes all to “The Box” for an exhibition of originally designed series and bodies of artwork on Jan. 18 from 5-7 p.m.
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Coronado students buy holiday gifts thanks to Silver Strand PTO
One Coronado elementary school’s students have completed Christmas shopping for their families inside their school cafeteria. The Silver Strand Elementary School Holiday Shoppe on the morning of Dec. 12 welcomed a group of third-grade students, with reusable plastic bags in hand, to shop for family members listed on each of their cash envelopes. Each year, […]
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Coronado’s Isabella Pruter wins ‘Winner with Distinction’ medallion
As a winner with distinction, Pruter will participate in National YoungArts Week, Jan. 7-13, 2024, in Miami.
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Winter training for Coronado track & field underway
Coronado High School track and field coaches have a message for those who want to compete this spring: Start training now. Head coach Cameron Gary and his staff are holding pre-season training from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at the high school track. And, in January, training days will include Friday. […]
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Coronado NJROTC cadets compete at SOCAL Aerial Drone Competition
Coronado High School NJROTC, in conjunction with the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation, held the first SOCAL Aerial Drone Competition NJROTC Invitational on Dec. 2. Coronado Cadets earned first-place trophies in the programming and piloting skills portions of the competition (and are currently ranked 5th among NJROTC units worldwide). The competition was held in the […]