Jean Cowden Moore

• Ventura County taxpayers paying twice for sheriff's academy, grand jury says Published 05/25/2012 at 1:47 p.m.

  Taxpayers are being charged twice for a sheriff's academy paid for with community college bond funds, the Ventura County Grand Jury said today.

• Board will interview candidates for community colleges chancellor Updated 05/24/2012 at 4:32 p.m. 2 Comments

  Community college officials will interview five candidates for chancellor Friday afternoon.

• Thomas Aquinas College administrator's life shaped by generosity rather than religious hostility Published 05/20/2012 at 8:01 p.m. 2 Comments

  Paul O'Reilly grew up during the Troubles in Ireland, surrounded by violence. When he was 16, his mother moved him and his seven brothers and sisters to Canada after two of his uncles were killed and his sister was attacked.

• School districts laying off more teachers Updated 05/15/2012 at 7:28 p.m. 105 Comments

  More than 100 Ventura County teachers have received final layoff notices, but that’s fewer than some school districts had anticipated in March.

• UC Santa Barbara to offer summer classes in Ventura Published 05/13/2012 at 8:54 p.m. 6 Comments

  UC Santa Barbara will offer summer classes in Ventura for the first time in about three years.

• CSU Channel Islands getting ready for growth Updated 05/10/2012 at 8:30 p.m. 10 Comments

  State budget cuts have kept CSU Channel Islands from growing as fast as it had originally planned, but the Camarillo campus is still getting ready to handle a lot more students — the 15,000 it would have at full capacity.

• CLU students lick stress with puppies' presence Updated 05/03/2012 at 7:20 p.m. 13 Comments

  California Lutheran University brings in puppies to help students deal with stress over finals.

• Local students honored at state science fair Published 05/02/2012 at 6:02 p.m.

  Eleven county students won awards at the California Science Fair.

• Ventura County students put their projects to the test at state science fair Published 04/30/2012 at 8:23 p.m.

  Logan Hicks and Colton Bracken, seniors at Thousand Oaks High School, know how tough acne can be. So that's what they did their science fair project on.

• Student who once lived in foster home named Star Scholar Published 04/24/2012 at 10:29 p.m. 6 Comments

  A young woman who lived in a foster home before going to a private boarding school has been named this year's Star Scholar.

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