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‘Hard work’ pays off: LAUSD announces Academic Decathlon winnersFebruary 10, 2019 at 4:17 PM LOS ANGELES – Highland Park’s Benjamin Franklin High School has won this year’s Los Angeles Unified School District Academic Decathlon, topping Grant High School, and will go on to compete in the statewide competition in March.
It was a first-time win for Franklin’s eight-member team. The remaining top spots went to Grant, which took second place; Garfield High School, third; Bell High School, fourth; and North Hollywood High School, fifth.
Franklin High and nine other top-scoring LAUSD schools ...Tags: News, Education, California, Sacramento, Sport, Soccer, Lausd, Local News, Grant High School, Grant, Marshall, Garcia, Torrance, Franklin, Van Nuys, Garfield High School 30 people like this. Like Thousands march in Seattle to honor Martin Luther King Jr.January 21, 2019 at 7:10 PM Thousands of marchers gathered at Garfield High School and marched downtown Monday to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Here's a look at scenes from the march.Tags: News, Seattle, Local News, Martin Luther King Jr, Garfield High School 87 people like this. Like I’m a Seattle teacher: School safety isn’t taken seriously enoughJanuary 4, 2019 at 1:01 PM Garfield High School, where I teach, had a school-shooter threat back in February, and it terrified us all. School shootings have somehow become common and normalized, yet there’s been almost nothing done even after this threat. Not to single out any one school – Seattle’s schools as a group have made almost no change in procedures, […]Tags: News, Opinion, Seattle, Garfield High School 140 people like this. Like Student Voices: We shouldn’t eliminate gifted classrooms. We should make them equitable.November 30, 2018 at 8:00 AM General education was not meeting Millan Philipose's learning needs. Now a student at Garfield High School, he didn't love school until he entered a gifted program, which he argues must be preserved for students like him.Tags: News, Education, Local News, Northwest, Education Lab, Puget Sound, Garfield High School, Millan Philipose 119 people like this. Like Tour Guide Knows His StuffSeptember 26, 2018 at 12:04 AM Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner shows Garfield High School players around the NFL team’s headquarters in Renton on Tuesday as part of a surprise tour. Wagner also gave a speech to the team, which plays top-ranked Eastside Catholic on Friday.Tags: Photography, News, NFL, Seahawks, High School Sports, Wagner, Bobby Wagner, RENTON, Garfield High School, Photo & Video, Eastside Catholic 113 people like this. Like Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner gives Garfield High players a tour and a speechSeptember 26, 2018 at 12:04 AM Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner shows Garfield High School players around the NFL team’s headquarters in Renton on Tuesday as part of a surprise tour. Wagner also gave a speech to the team, which plays top-ranked Eastside Catholic on Friday.Tags: Photography, News, NFL, Seahawks, High School Sports, Wagner, Bobby Wagner, RENTON, Garfield High School, Photo & Video, Eastside Catholic, Garfield High 75 people like this. Like Garfield in market for basketball coach as Brandon Roy apparently steps asideAugust 30, 2018 at 9:10 PM Garfield High School advertised for a new boys basketball coach, indicating that Brandon Roy has stepped away from the program.Tags: News, Sports, Garfield, High School Sports, Brandon Roy, Garfield High School 103 people like this. Like Garfield in market for boys basketball coach as Brandon Roy steps asideAugust 30, 2018 at 9:10 PM Garfield High School advertised for a new boys basketball coach, indicating that Brandon Roy has stepped away from the program.Tags: News, Sports, Garfield, High School Sports, Brandon Roy, Garfield High School 86 people like this. Like New schools chief Beutner tours LAUSD, from the Valley to East L.A.May 15, 2018 at 5:51 AM Napa Elementary third-grader Christian Martin, 8, escorts new LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner and principal Brenda Fernandez on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, during Beutner’s whirlwind tour of LAUSD campuses that included this Northridge school. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
New LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner speaks to a Napa Elementary class at the Northridge campus during his tour of LAUSD schools on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Dai...Tags: Politics, News, Education, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Lausd, SEIU, Times, Local News, Los Angeles Times, Northridge, Cox, Valley, Sun Valley, San Fernando Valley 48 people like this. Like 3 men get 100+ years each for gang murder of former LA high school football playerMarch 26, 2018 at 8:06 PM Three men convicted in the 2013 gang-related murder of 21-year-old Gabriel Soto, a former Garfield High School football player, have each received sentences on Monday, March 26, 2018 of more than 100 years to life.
By ELIZABETH MARCELLINO
City News Service
LOS ANGELES — Three men convicted of the 2013 gang-related killing of a former Garfield High School football player in East Los Angeles were each sentenced today to more than 100 years to life in prison.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Step...Tags: Crime, News, California, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Missouri, Williams, Sentencing, Homicide, Local News, Marcus, Gabriel, Los Angeles Superior Court, Gonzalez, East Los Angeles 16 people like this. Like State reopens investigation into Garfield guidance counselorMarch 6, 2018 at 9:08 PM The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction says it has reopened its investigation into Garfield High School guidance counselor Ray Willis after learning new information about Willis' financial dealings.Tags: News, Education, Local News, Garfield, Willis, Garfield High School, Ray Willis, Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction 46 people like this. Like Sal Castro fought for justice in education. 50 years after Walkouts, LAUSD honors teachers who live his legacyMarch 5, 2018 at 8:30 PM By Esmeralda Fabián Romero, LA School Report
As L.A. Unified commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Walkouts, the district honored 11 educators who are continuing the legacy of Sal Castro, the social studies teacher who guided 15,000 students who left their East Los Angeles classrooms on March 1, 1968, to fight for educational justice.
The winners were selected from the Walkouts’ five “legacy schools” — Wilson, Garfield, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Belmont high schools — and were honored with the ...Tags: News, Education, La, Uncategorized, Sport, Soccer, Ram, Lincoln, Lausd, Garfield, Castro, Belmont, Jos, Wilson, East Side, Sal 37 people like this. Like State drops probe into Garfield High counselor’s financial dealingsMarch 1, 2018 at 3:05 AM After thousands of pages of investigation into allegations of fraud, a Garfield High School guidance counselor remains on the job. Some parents say he used school connections to attract investors.Tags: News, Education, Local News, Garfield, Garfield High School 46 people like this. Like In Seattle, teachers are going rogue just to take kids on a field tripFebruary 2, 2018 at 10:57 PM A famed sciences learning program at Seattle’s Garfield High School is still on, despite being canceled by the school district. That’s because it’s gone guerrilla and off the grid.Tags: News, Education, Seattle, Local News, Garfield High School 130 people like this. Like Sounders send Aaron Kovar, Seattle native, to Los Angeles FCJanuary 24, 2018 at 12:52 AM Kovar, 24, went to Garfield High School and Stanford.Tags: News, Sports, Seattle, Sounders, Los Angeles Fc, Garfield High School, Aaron Kovar, Kovar 3 people like this. Like Washington rally falls short in 73-64 defeat to StanfordJanuary 13, 2018 at 10:36 PM Daejon Davis — the former Garfield High School star and UW Husky signee — returned to Seattle and helped hand his hometown team a heartbreaking 73-64 defeat.Tags: News, Washington, Stanford, Sports, Seattle, Huskies, Husky Basketball, Garfield High School, Daejon Davis 124 people like this. Like Cooking passion into a career at The PradoNovember 16, 2017 at 9:06 PM The 20th Thanksgiving Gourmet Luncheon raises money for Garfield High School, whose culinary arts program prepares much of the luncheon.Tags: News, Prado, Garfield High School 23 people like this. Like Cooking passion into a careerNovember 16, 2017 at 8:24 PM SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - More than 350 people enjoyed a holiday luncheon Thursday at The Prado Restaurant in Balboa Park prepared by high schoolers. The 20th Thanksgiving Gourmet Luncheon raises money for Garfield High School, whose culinary arts program prepares much of the luncheon.Tags: News, San Diego, Balboa Park, Garfield High School, Prado Restaurant 13 people like this. Like Gun safety: ASK for kids’ sakeJune 16, 2017 at 6:54 PM Twenty-two years ago, I survived a shooting at Garfield High School. A student brought his grandfather’s unsecured gun to school, and I was caught in the spray of bullets. ASK — the Asking Saves Kids campaign — encourages parents to find out if there are unsecured weapons where their children play. We must end the […]Tags: News, Opinion, Garfield High School, Letters to the Editor, Northwest Voices 12 people like this. Like Counselor at Seattle’s Garfield High School keeps job despite financial-fraud fineMay 29, 2017 at 9:00 AM A Seattle guidance counselor has been fined twice by state regulators for selling stocks without a broker’s license and misleading investors. But he continues to advise students at Garfield High School.Tags: News, Education, Seattle, Local News, Garfield High School 145 people like this. Like Texas football player’s story prompts probe of Garfield High School recruitmentApril 24, 2017 at 8:31 PM Seattle is investigating possible recruitment violations tied to the Garfield High School football team in light of allegations made by a youth from Texas who arrived in Seattle without any family here and played as a running back last season.Tags: Texas, News, Education, Sports, Seattle, Local News, High School Sports, Garfield High School 12 people like this. Like Seite Books.January 5, 2017 at 8:39 PM I came across a reference to Seite Books and wanted to know how the name was pronounced, so I googled up this LA Times article from 2014 by Hector Tobar and was immediately hooked:
When Adam Bernales and Denice Diaz started Seite Books in a little storefront in East Los Angeles, a lot of people thought their taste in books was too highbrow. […]
But Bernales and Diaz, both then in their mid-20s, persisted. A few students from nearby Garfield High School and East Los Angeles Community College star...Tags: Uncategorized, Linguistics, Ursula K Le Guin, Fernando, Jorge Luis Borges, LA Times, Diaz, Seite, East Los Angeles, Barnes Noble, Garfield High School, Dutton, Amiri Baraka, Hector Tobar, Dashiell Hammett 35 people like this. Like Where blending honors and regular classes worked: New York educator to talk at Garfield HighJanuary 5, 2017 at 9:00 AM One of the most vocal supporters of abolishing the divide between “honors” and “general education” students will speak at Garfield High School next week. Here, Carol Burris gives Education Lab a preview.Tags: New York, News, Education, Local News, Education Lab, Garfield High School, Garfield High 50 people like this. Like What We Don't Learn About the Black Panther Party—but ShouldOctober 20, 2016 at 2:02 PM By Adam Sanchez and Jesse Hagopian
Fifty years ago this month, the Black Panther Party was born. Its history holds vital lessons for today's movement to confront racism and police violence, yet textbooks either misrepresent or minimize the significance of the Black Panthers.
The first issue of the Black Panther newspaper, which at its height had a weekly circulation of 140,000 copies, asked, "WHY WAS DENZIL DOWELL KILLED?" Helping Dowell's family demand justice in Richmond, California, was on...Tags: New York, News, California, New York City, Alabama, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Fbi, United States, Richmond California, Oakland, Seattle, Civil rights movement, Huffington Post, Newton 51 people like this. Like Garfield High School Football Players Join Colin Kaepernick By Kneeling During National AnthemSeptember 17, 2016 at 12:01 PM High school football players in Seattle took a kneel in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick before the game.Tags: News, Colin Kaepernick, Jazz, Seattle, Garfield High School, For Discussion 30 people like this. Like Tony Wroten Jr. re-signs with Memphis GrizzliesAugust 8, 2016 at 10:02 PM The Memphis Grizzlies re-signed guard Tony Wroten Jr., team officials announced. Wroten, 23, was a standout for the Washington Huskies and Garfield High School in Seattle before playing his rookie season with the Grizzlies.Tags: News, Sports, Memphis Grizzlies, Nba, Seattle, Other Sports, Garfield High School, Wroten, Washington Huskies 30 people like this. Like ‘Microcosm of the city’: Garfield High principal navigates racial divideJune 25, 2016 at 11:00 AM After leading Seattle’s storied Garfield High School for more than a decade, Principal Ted Howard is having a crisis of conscience, wondering if his hard line with youth of color is hurting the very students he most wants to help.Tags: Education, Seattle, Local News, Education Lab, Garfield High School, Ted Howard, Garfield High 115 people like this. Like Ex-UW Huskies star Brandon Roy hired as Nathan Hale basketball coachJune 24, 2016 at 5:19 PM Besides a new coach in Roy — a former Garfield High School standout who was the 2005-06 Pac-10 Player of the Year at UW — Nathan Hale also will have two new players: five-star recruit Michael Porter Jr. and his younger brother, Jontay.Tags: Sports, Roy, High School Sports, Huskies, Husky Basketball, UW, Brandon Roy, Garfield High School, UW Huskies, Nathan Hale, Michael Porter Jr 150 people like this. Like brand book bites from onwardJune 21, 2016 at 1:57 AM In lieu of my usual Brand Book Bites format, I wanted to share my favorite excerpts from Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul, the book Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wrote in 2012 to memorialize the remarkable turnaround at his company after he returned to the helm in 2008. I recently re-read the book (for purposes that will become clearer later…yes, that was a teaser) and was struck by the way the company’s recovery was driven by a singular, clear, and focused com...Tags: US, Howard Schultz, Starbucks, Great, Seattle, Stephen, World of Warcraft, Branding, Blizzard Entertainment, Michelle, Schultz, Adam, Garfield High School, Brand Book Bites, Brand-as-Business, Brand-as-business Management Approach 11 people like this. Like Garfield teacher pepper-sprayed by Seattle police to receive $100,000 settlementJune 7, 2016 at 5:57 PM Jesse Hagopian, a history teacher at Seattle’s Garfield High School, was walking on a sidewalk and talking to his mother on his cellphone when an officer pepper-sprayed him on Jan. 19, 2015, after he participated in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event.Tags: Crime, Seattle, Local News, Garfield, Garfield High School 112 people like this. Like |