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...
When Hattie Mitchell was a freshman at Cal State LA, she volunteered on Skid Row and saw a girl crawling on the sidewalk.
That was the moment she decided to be a teacher, according to her husband, Brett...
Being a college student is not easy. Every semester, most university students dedicate the majority of their lives to classwork. They work tirelessly in the hopes they will earn good grades from their...
Anne To, Community News Reporter
• February 16, 2022
The Alhambra School District went from struggling to gather a couple dozen parents to attend its district meetings and webinars a few years ago to seeing hundreds of new and active parents.
While the...
Alyssah Hall, Community News Reporter
• February 11, 2022
It takes parents, students, teachers, administrators, and even local nonprofits to promote college readiness among first-generation students and others.
That’s where El Monte Promise Foundation, a...
Fully vaccinated? Check.
Booster shot? Check.
First three weeks of spring semester remotely? It’s not exactly how Cal State LA students thought their spring semester would start.
Jacob Rangnes,...
According to President William A. Covino in a campus email, classes for spring 2022 will be on temporary remote instruction for the first three weeks of the semester.
Public health experts told Covino...
Film director Neal Tyler’s work has appeared on PBS, National Geographic, Animal Planet, A&E, Amazon Prime, and others.
Now, he’s working on a documentary set in Alhambra about homelessness...
I used to be an objectively worse student than my peers in elementary school: I got lower grades, was worse at physical activities, and was immature for my age.
Three years later, I got into Cal State...
While serving time, Daniel Whitlow, a graduate of Cal State LA’s Prison BA program, did not intend to give up on a brighter future.
“The bachelor's program was the greatest thing going in my...
Many students at Cal State LA are not thrilled that the majority of classes offered next semester will be in-person.
“I started this petition because if not me, then who?” said Nicolette Elia,...
Erik Adams, Community News Reporter
• November 17, 2021
There are decades-old tensions where the I-605 and I-10 converge.
The unassuming Southern California town of El Monte, located about 14 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, is home to many longtime residents...
