Pacific Palisades : High School Gets Grant

A federal grant of $75,000 has been awarded to Palisades High School for the first phase of its ambitious Multimedia Communications Center. The money will be used for a one-year pilot program that will allow students to choose communications as a specialty or to sample a wide range of courses as electives.

During the first year, the center will set up a radio broadcast and video production studio (it already puts out a monthly newspaper), a translation unit, classes in production and language services such as writing, scripting, editing, translating, directing, acting, voice-overs and taping, and a core of academic classes that will emphasize communications. It will also offer special training to participating teachers.

The grant is the first major achievement by the Palisades Education Complex’s new grant-writing unit, headed by Palisades parent Merle Strauss and funded by the Palisades Rotary Club.