Declining enrollment over the past two decades. School policing issues. Funding and resource management. Learning losses due to the global pandemic. Children having to learn remotely.
These are some...
KeAndre Berry, Community News Reporter
• September 27, 2022
In the 1990s, violence pervaded neighborhoods around East Los Angeles.
The violent crime rate in 1990 in East Los Angeles, for instance, was more than double that for the region -- compared to just...
When Jorge Garcia attended El Sereno Middle School, he always wondered about the old wood-framed schoolhouse on the campus site but never heard much about it.
More recently, when his kids started attending,...
Marcos Franco, Community News Reporter
• February 28, 2022
Despite multiple attempts over the course of six decades to become its own city, the predominantly Latinx 7.5 square-mile barrio of East Los Angeles is still part of unincorporated Los Angeles County.
That...
Ronald Cruz, Community News Social Media Editor
• November 15, 2021
When Juan and Candy Villa purchased La Azteca Tortilleria in East Los Angeles in 2010, they had no idea how to make handmade tortillas or how to run a business.
What they knew is that...
Zoe Little, Community News Editor-in-Chief
• October 2, 2021
There has been another reason to visit Whittier Boulevard in recent weeks. On Saturday mornings, near the landmark Whittier Boulevard arch, a farmer’s market has brought fresh produce, music and community...
Much like students now – who have been active in movements such as #NeverAgain and #ImAlreadyHome – East Los Angeles high school students fought to improve their conditions.
Rita Ledesma was one...
