EDUCATION Sharing the experience of unexplored lands...

EDUCATION

Sharing the experience

of unexplored lands

Recent visitors to Rabbit Island, a 36-acre island given to Orange

Coast College this year, spoke Wednesday about educational

opportunities the land could provide. Dennis Kelly, a professor of

marine science at the school, said that he hopes the college can

offer classes, like ones to study Rabbit Island’s intertidal

waterways, to students next summer. The island sits about 50 miles

off the western Canadian coast.

* The Newport-Mesa Unified School District Board of Trustees

adopted a policy to ensure students from homeless families get a

proper education.

The policy is part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

According to officials, more than 300 homeless children passed

through district schools last year.

The district has appointed a liaison to homeless students, must

provide transportation for them and must let them stay in their

school of origin even if they move out of the district.

* MARISA O’NEIL covers education and may be reached at (949)

574-4268 or by e-mail at marisa.oneil@latimes.com.