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The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

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California Assembly Bill 1858, effective Jan. 1 of this year, aims to tamp down those campuses that hold active shooter drills.

LAW & ORDER: Legislation over certain safety drills effective Jan. 1 of this year prompt district officials to update protocols

Esther Ahn, Cub Reporter March 2, 2025

“Law & Order” explores passed bills relevant to teachers and students. What impact will these decisions have on the school? Despite new legislation that limits what public schools can do during...

California Senate Bill 976, which was passed Friday, Sept. 23, aims to prohibit internet service and applications from providing addictive feeds to minors and bans companies from sending notifications to minors at certain times.

LAW & ORDER: New state bill to protect minors from ‘addicting’ social media content, notifications at certain times

Kevin Lee, Assistant News Editor February 3, 2025

“Law & Order” explores passed bills relevant to teachers and students. What impact will these decisions have on the school? California Gov. Gavin Newsom passed into law Senate Bill [SB] 976,...

California Assembly Bill 3216, passed Monday, Sept. 23, focuses on developing restrictive phone policies for all state school districts.

LAW & ORDER: Gov. Gavin Newsom signs legislation requiring public schools to ban student cell phone use in classrooms

Irene Park, News Editor November 25, 2024

“Law & Order” explores recently passed legislation relevant to teachers and students. What impact will these decisions have on Sunny Hills? California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into...

Freshman Matthew Gallardo rushes to pick up his lunch meal at the RoundHouse on Monday, Oct. 16, during lunch. In the 2023-2024 school year, more students have picked up meals because of improvements made to school lunches.

Believe it or not, free lunch meals are tasting better than ever

Kevin Lee, Assistant News Editor November 15, 2023

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation earlier this month that was championed by an 11-year-old boy named Zacky Muñoz. Known as the Muñoz Student Allergy Framework for Emergencies Act – AB 1651, the...

Staff Editorial: School administrators deserve praise for shifting drill schedule to add in a break afterward

Staff Editorial: School administrators deserve praise for shifting drill schedule to add in a break afterward

The Accolade Editorial Board September 19, 2022

The 2022-2023 Accolade editorial board unanimously agrees with the Sunny Hills administration’s decision to alter the drill schedule to third or fifth period, which allows lunch or break to follow a...

Junior Remy Kakebeen (left) reacts to students going ahead of her at the Roundhouse Feb. 26. Kakebeen is one of many students who noticed the increased amount of cutting in school break and lunch lines.

Long lunch lines lead to students’ irritation over waiting times

Nevya Patel, News Editor February 22, 2022

Since the state provided free on-campus meals starting in 2021-2022 for break and lunch, Sunny Hills students are noticing longer lines to get food – one reason being friends allowing a group of others...

Staff Editorial: New Ethnic Studies course signals important step toward a fairer history curriculum

Staff Editorial: New Ethnic Studies course signals important step toward a fairer history curriculum

The Accolade Editorial Board November 10, 2021

The Accolade editorial board vote count: 15 consider a semester-long ethnic studies class becoming a requirement for high school graduation a beneficial addition to students, 2 do not.  Living up to...

English teacher Tom Wiegman holds up the COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card he received after being vaccinated with the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in March 2021 and the second dose in April 2021. The Fullerton Joint Union High School District [FJUHSD] sent out an email Sept. 2 to all staff mandating vaccination verification to fulfill a state requirement that the governor signed into law Aug. 11. Anyone working in the FJUHSD who chooses not to be vaccinated must take a COVID-19 test on a weekly basis beginning Oct. 18.

FJUHSD mandates vaccines for entire staff, offers secondary option to test weekly for unvaccinated

Kate Yang, Editor-in-Chief October 1, 2021

In compliance with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new public health order, the Fullerton Joint Union High School District [FJUHSD] announced, through an email sent to students and parents on Sept. 3, its decision...

The state has started sending special recall election ballot information to registered voters like this one. The name and address have been removed for confidentiality.

Do you qualify to vote in the Sept. 14 special election to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom?

Jaimie Chun, Editor-in-Chief September 3, 2021

Seniors who were born on Sept. 14, 2003, or earlier but missed the Aug. 30 time frame to register to vote for a special election to decide the fate of California Gov. Gavin Newsom will have to wait until...

Sunny Hills High School’s quad and classroom buildings will remain empty Aug. 11 when school starts as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandate that campuses in counties on the state’s coronavirus watch list stay closed for safety reasons. The July 17 decision comes nearly a week before a July 23 special meeting of the Fullerton Joint Union High School District trustees to discuss reopening plans for Sunny Hills and the other seven schools in the district.

Gov. Newsom issues mandate for campuses in 33 counties — including Sunny Hills — to start 2020-2021 school year with distance learning because of high number of positive COVID-19 cases

Alice Shin, Managing Editor July 19, 2020

Nearly a week before the Fullerton Joint Union High School District [FJUHSD] trustees were scheduled to hold a special meeting to vote on a plan to reopen schools, including Sunny Hills, California Gov....

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