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By 06/16/2021
Bob Raines, the superintendent of the Shoreline Unified School District who was arrested on June 8 on charges of lewd acts with a child under the age of 14, was placed on unpaid leave by the school board last week.
The county district attorney’s office is reviewing the case to decide whether or not to file charges, and the school district and sheriff’s office are being tight-lipped about what happened. Details about when and where the alleged crime was committed have not been shared, and the district has not confirmed that the alleged victim was a student. The crime was reported on June 1 in Tomales. The Light’s requests for more information from board members, principals, family advocates and counselors have gone unanswered.
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By 06/09/2021
Bob Raines, the superintendent of the Shoreline Unified School District for the last five years, was arrested on Tuesday for lewd acts with a child under the age of 14. The district reported the incident to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office a week earlier and placed Mr. Raines on administrative leave. Detectives developed probable cause, and Mr. Raines was arrested at his home in Petaluma, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office. He was released on $50,000 bail and is denying the allegations against him.
Mr. Raines was set to retire at the end of the month after a 43-year career in education.
âScience and Fictions: Cinema in East Tennessee,â a virtual symposium presented by East Tennessee State Universityâs departments of Media and Communication and Literature and Language, is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, via Zoom.
This free event is focused on artists, filmmakers, researchers and writers who will share insights on key topics for the region using film as a catalyst for conversation and action. It is composed of three seminars, an asynchronous film screening, a film production skills workshop, and a collaborative film and design workshop.
Online panels will engage interdisciplinary panelists around numerous topics, including âStoried Histories: Revisiting Appalachian Myths for the Future,â âCommunicating Science: Media, COVID and Public Healthâ and âWhat Can Film Do Here?â
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By 05/05/2021
The Shoreline Unified School District is updating a dress code policy that the school’s trustees and administration say is sexist, outdated and inconsistently enforced. A change was proposed by Thomas Tyson, a new trustee, who said his daughter came home in tears in fourth grade because a teacher found that her clothes did not comply. “This is an important decision that can adversely affect a kid, not just for the day but for the rest of their school time,” he said. The current board policy, which is based on a California School Board Association template and was last renewed at Shoreline in 2018, singles out clothes generally worn by female students. “Halter tops, off-the-shoulder or low-cut tops, bare midriffs and skirts or shorts shorter than mid-thigh are prohibited,” it states. The policy also says that gym shorts can only be worn for physical education, backless sandals are not acceptable and hair shall be neatly groomed.
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The Oklahoma-made movie Minari continued its strong awards season run this morning as the 2021 Oscar nominations were announced this morning. Minari, which was filmed in Tulsa in 2019, has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture, and a history-making best actor nod for Steven Yeun, who becomes the first Asian-American ever nominated for a best actor Oscar.
Writer-director Lee Isaac Chung, who loosely based Minari on his own childhood, earned nods for best director and best original screenplay when Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas revealed the nominations this morning. Plus, Youn Yuh-jung is nominated for best supporting actress and Emile Mosseri for best original score.