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Women on corporate boards increase company buyout value

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.


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Confronting anti-vaccine activism with life-saving narratives

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.



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Coachella Valley's Read With Me Volunteers receives grant: ‘We knew it would be a perfect fit’

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.


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COD Superintendent/President: 'College of the Desert takes very seriously the privacy of information in our care'

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.


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Breathing is going to get tougher

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.


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Elementary Social Studies Curriculum Available for Preview

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.


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Is that a persistent cold, bad allergies, … or long COVID?

Some people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can have symptoms of the illness lasting years


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Your Feedback, Input Needed

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.


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California will inevitably shake like Turkey

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.


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Coachella Valley Unified School District will host a job fair Feb. 25: 'We want highly qualified teachers in all categories'

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.



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ART DOC: Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own on February 22

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.


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Input Needed on LCAP Survey

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.


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Volunteers needed for Read With Me, ‘an amazing organization that has a proven track record of recruiting, training and transporting senior volunteers’

Since 2004, the nonprofit Read With Me Volunteer Programs has inspired and helped under-resourced children from low-income communities.


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Calvert announces military academic nominations: ‘These students are extraordinary representatives of our region’

Congressman Ken Calvert has introduced a group of students from his 42nd Congressional District that he has nominated to attend U.S. Service Academies.


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Hall on students accused of bringing a handgun to school: 'The decision was made to evacuate the school'

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.


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Take a Ride On the Foundation Express

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.


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Morales on $79 million award for CSUSB Palm Desert: 'The new Student Center building will be life changing'

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.


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COD president on awards: 'We will continue to make college a reality'

College of the Desert (COD) recently received two awards for opening the door to higher education to more students.