View Larger Map Contributing her time and skills, Gretchen Corrales earned a reputation as being a “talented athlete, a gifted artist, an inspiring teacher” while serving with an enrichment program at Glenfeliz Elementary in Atwater Village. On Monday, students and staff at the Atwater school were ... Read More »
Category Archives: School Yard
Fundraiser to support library and literacy at Elysian Heights school
Budget cut backs have left Elysian Heights Elementary without staff to maintain the school library or buy new books. Now, in an effort to re hire a library aide and support other literacy programs, the Friends of Elysian Heights Elementary School is hosting a Lotería Social ... Read More »
Fall fundraiser to benefit Elysian Valley school music program
Dorris Place Elementary will hold a Fall Festival Fundraiser on Friday, Oct. 26 to help fund an instrumental music program at the Elysian Valley school. The festival includes a haunted house, petting zoo, face painting food and other activities. The Partners of Dorris, a school support ... Read More »
Schools prepare to play up or down play new API scores*
State education officials today released the results of the most recent Academic Performance Index, the most widely watched albeit criticized measure of academic performances at schools across California. For the first time, a majority of schools, 53%, scored above the statewide target of 800, according to ... Read More »
School district to spend more than $1 million to fix crumbling concrete at Marshall High
The Gothic-style main buildings of Marshall High School have long established the Los Feliz campus as a neighborhood landmark. But, earlier this year, fragments of the school’s concrete and brick exterior –”large enough to cause serious harm” – began falling to the ground, prompting the closure of the ... Read More »
Open Discussion: Charter school or L.A. Unified? Lincoln Heights mom wants to keep her options open
By Josefina Vargas “Es mi hijo, yo elijo!” – “It’s my child, I choose!” was what hundreds of parents enthusiastically chanted outside the LAUSD headquarters on the morning of September 11. We were there to oppose a resolution that Mr. Steve Zimmer, a school board member, ... Read More »
New East L.A. school garden takes root on a rooftop
Photos courtesy KIPP Raíces Academy Who says a garden has to be planted in the ground? When it came time to plant their school garden, the staff and students at Kipp Raíces Academy headed for the rooftop parking deck of the former East Los Angeles auto ... Read More »
A new generation of girls take roller derby for a spin
Story by Samuel Temblador Photos by Jesse Saucedo On weekend mornings and every Wednesday afternoon, in the Doll Factory roller derby rink in Echo Park, the L.A Derby Dolls hold junior roller derby classes for girls and young women ages 7 to 17 as part of ... Read More »
Charter school exec targets Echo Park & Silver Lake
Charter school founder Steve Barr and L.A. Unified have teamed up to open academies within the school district that will feature “new approaches to training teachers and new ways of instruction made possible by technology,” reports the L.A. Now. The details have yet to be worked ... Read More »
New Silver Lake charter school taking applications of 2nd & 3rd graders
Citizens of the World, a Hollywood charter school that will expand into Silver Lake this September with classes at Micheltorena Elementary, has spots open for 2nd and 3rd grade students. An announcement provided by a founding parent of the school, which is based on the constructivist ... Read More »