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Women on corporate boards increase company buyout value
By Coachella Valley Times Reports | Mar 13, 2023
If you own stock in a company targeted for acquisition, the behavior and makeup of the company’s board of directors – particularly whether it includes women – could be worth a lot of money for you.
Confronting anti-vaccine activism with life-saving narratives
By Coachella Valley Times Reports | Mar 13, 2023
Public and private sector health officials and public policymakers should team up immediately with community leaders to more effectively disseminate accurate narratives regarding the life-saving benefits of vaccines to counter widespread, harmful misinformation from anti-vaccine activists.
District Elementary Track Meet (Grades 3-5) on March 17
By Coachella Valley Times Reports | Mar 13, 2023
District Elementary Track Meet (Grades 3-5) on March 17 at 5:00 PM
Coachella Valley's Read With Me Volunteers receives grant: ‘We knew it would be a perfect fit’
By Coachella Valley Times Report | Mar 7, 2023
Read With Me Volunteers, a Coachella Valley-based program that helps students learn English, recently received a $10,000 grant to start their tutoring program at Cathedral City’s Agua Caliente Elementary School.
COD Superintendent/President: 'College of the Desert takes very seriously the privacy of information in our care'
By Coachella Valley Times Report | Mar 7, 2023
College of the Desert (COD) is providing free credit monitoring services for victims of a malware attack, which hit its online network last summer and exposed the personal data of approximately 800 people.
Breathing is going to get tougher
By Press release submission | Mar 1, 2023
Not all pollution comes from people. When global temperatures increase by 4 degrees Celsius, harmful plant emissions and dust will also increase by as much as 14 percent, according to new UC Riverside research.
Elementary Social Studies Curriculum Available for Preview
By Press release submission | Mar 1, 2023
The Palm Springs Unified School District announces the 30-day public display of the Social Studies curriculum materials being considered for adoption for grades TK-5.
Is that a persistent cold, bad allergies, … or long COVID?
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2023
Some people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can have symptoms of the illness lasting years
Your Feedback, Input Needed
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2023
As we head toward spring, it is the time of the year when we are preparing our annual Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP), and we ask for your help.
California will inevitably shake like Turkey
By Press release submission | Feb 14, 2023
The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that killed — by current count — more than 6,000 people in Turkey and Syria on Sunday was produced by the same type of fault underlying most of California.
Coachella Valley Unified School District will host a job fair Feb. 25: 'We want highly qualified teachers in all categories'
By Coachella Valley Times Report | Feb 14, 2023
The Coachella Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) will be hosting a teacher recruitment fair on Saturday, Feb. 25, to fill open teaching positions for the 2023-24 school year.
Family Fun Wednesday/Miércoles de diversión familiar on February 22
By Press release submission | Feb 14, 2023
Family Fun Wednesday/Miércoles de diversión familiar on February 22
ART DOC: Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own on February 22
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2023
The second in the Palm Desert Public Art Documentary Film Series is Into Her Own, an artistic biography of one of the few women in the world working in monumental sculpture.
Input Needed on LCAP Survey
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2023
PSUSD would like to hear your thoughts, opinions, questions, and ideas about how we can continue to provide and improve a quality learning environment for all PSUSD students.
Volunteers needed for Read With Me, ‘an amazing organization that has a proven track record of recruiting, training and transporting senior volunteers’
By Coachella Valley Times Report | Jan 7, 2023
Since 2004, the nonprofit Read With Me Volunteer Programs has inspired and helped under-resourced children from low-income communities.
Calvert announces military academic nominations: ‘These students are extraordinary representatives of our region’
By Coachella Valley Times Report | Nov 22, 2022
Congressman Ken Calvert has introduced a group of students from his 42nd Congressional District that he has nominated to attend U.S. Service Academies.
Hall on students accused of bringing a handgun to school: 'The decision was made to evacuate the school'
By Donna Rolando | Nov 7, 2022
Two 13-year-old boys, who attend Toro Canyon Middle School, were taken into custody Wednesday after bringing a handgun to class and what was suspected to be a grenade, said Sgt. Brandi Swan of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.
Take a Ride On the Foundation Express
By Press release submission | Nov 3, 2022
Desert Sands Educational Foundation cordially invites you to our first fundraising event of the year, The Foundation Express, is this Sunday, November 6, 2022, at 2:00 pm.
Morales on $79 million award for CSUSB Palm Desert: 'The new Student Center building will be life changing'
By Donna Rolando | Oct 24, 2022
California State University's Palm Desert campus celebrated the award of $79 million in state funds for the construction of a new student center, with state and local officials on hand to show their support at a recent check presentation ceremony.
COD president on awards: 'We will continue to make college a reality'
By Donna Rolando | Oct 15, 2022
College of the Desert (COD) recently received two awards for opening the door to higher education to more students.