Category: Education

While the graduation rates of most student groups in the state rose in 2014, the numbers for African American pupils stayed flat, at 68.1 percent, unchanged from the year before.

The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously April 14 to establish the Girls Academic Leadership Academy, Los Angeles, an all-girls science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) school on the campus of Los Angeles High School.

The Los Angeles Unified School District will host a series of free arts festivals in April and May that will give young people across the district an opportunity to display their talents.

Compton Unified School District (CUSD) is creating a new school for students who are motivated to finish high school and their first two years of college at the same time. Called Early College School, the facility is a collaboration between El Camino College Center and the CUSD and will begin with 100 to 120 ninth graders during the 2015-16 school year. The school will add one grade each annually until a complete 9-12 configuration is achieved.

Youth ages six to 18 years who have made a positive impact on their communities can be nominated until March 13 to potentially win nearly $400,000 in scholarships and prizes from the Kohl’s Cares® Scholarship Program.

United Way of Greater Los Angeles will co-host next month a series of candidate forums to help residents get to know those campaigning for the school board. Those interested in the District 3 race, which encompasses schools in Canoga Park, Chatsworth, Northridge, Winnetka, Reseda, Lake Balboa, Sherman Oaks, West Hills, Van Nuys, Studio City, and North Hollywood will be held Feb. 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. at North Hollywood High School, 5231 Colfax Ave., North Hollywood.

More than 50 Compton Unified School District (CUSD) students are seeing the world more clearly today thanks to a new partnership between the school district and the nationwide nonprofit Vision To Learn (VTL), which provided new eyeglasses for the Clinton Elementary and Dominguez High School students at an event on the Dominguez campus.