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LAUSD student ‘beats the odds’ and wins $10,000 scholarship
LA Unified student Timothy Walker of Crenshaw High School was among five students honored by the Children’s Defense Fund of California with a “Beat the Odds” award at a star-studded event in Culver City last week. The award recognizes students who have overcome obstacles and adversity while achieving academic success. Each winner will receive a $10,000 college...
By LA School Report | December 9, 2014
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Two years later, teachers fighting changes at Crenshaw High
A labor board hearing opened yesterday with a dozen LA Unified teachers, including UTLA president Alex Caputo-Pearl, claiming the district used the reorganization of Crenshaw High School in 2012 to rid the campus of active union leaders who posed a threat to Superintendent John Deasy. The teachers union filed the unfair labor practice charge against...
By Vanessa Romo | September 11, 2014
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Crenshaw choir director released from ‘teacher jail’
Eight months after being yanked off campus, long-time choir director Iris Stevenson returned to Crenshaw High School today. Stevenson, who’s led an award-winning music program at the school for nearly three decades, was pulled from teaching last December and reassigned to report to work at district offices — a sort of purgatory for educators under...
By Vanessa Romo | August 12, 2014
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Teachers Union Files Two More Unfair Labor Practice Charges*
The teachers union has filed two unfair labor practice charges with the Public Employment Relations Board (or PERB) against the Los Angeles Unified School District over 12 teachers who have been removed from two different schools – one at City of Angels and 11 at Crenshaw High. UTLA president Warren Fletcher said at a...
By Hillel Aron | September 5, 2013
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Parents, Medical Providers, Vaccine Experts Brace for RFK Jr.’s HHS Takeover
After Declaring NAEP Off-Limits, Education Department Cancels Upcoming Test
Interactive: Data From 9,500 Districts Finds Even More Staff and Fewer Students
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Three-in-One Approach Gives Crenshaw a New Look for Success
On the first day of school last week, students at Crenshaw High School showed up in uniform. It’s the first time the school has ever instituted a dress code, and Principal Remon Corley was relieved when about 90 percent of students walked through the campus’s blue gates dressed in gold, black, blue, and white polo...
By Vanessa Romo | August 23, 2013