Toro Canyon Middle School, Desert Mirage High School and Las Palmitas High School in Thermal are on lockdown for an unspecified reason, according to the Coachella Valley Unified School District.
This organized action is meant to direct attention towards CVUSD’s failure to pay a competitive wage to retain qualified staff across all schools in the district.
A former Coachella Valley Unified School District teacher who repeatedly sexually assaulted his girlfriend’s young daughter was bound for state prison Tuesday to serve a sentence of 36 years to life behind bars.
Riverside County Superior Court Judge Jerry Yang scheduled a sentencing hearing for Jan. 9 at the Riverside Hall of Justice and ordered Martinez held without bail at the nearby Robert Presley Jail.
A Coachella man accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a teenage student over a social media app while employed as a substitute teaching assistant must stand trial on a felony and misdemeanor charge, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Luis Alfonso Martinez, 43, of La Quinta, is charged with two counts each of lewd acts on a minor and oral copulation of a child under 10 years old, as well as one count each of committing multiple lewd acts on an underage victim and distributing explicit material to a minor.
Thermal schools were back in session Thursday after a pair of students were detained when a handgun was discovered to have been taken to Toro Canyon Middle School, which prompted the evacuation of three schools.
