IRS-certified students from Río Hondo College will provide free basic income tax return preparation aid for individuals and families who earned $56,000 or less in 2019 as part of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. The program is being held from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Fridays, Jan. 31 through April 10, excluding March 27. For information, call 562-463-7359.
Monrovia Unified School District’s Santa Fe Computer Science Magnet School will hold a grand opening for its new Paxton Patterson Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Lab, which offers students hands-on instruction in connection with career technical education (CTE) pathways. The STEM Lab will offer students access to lessons in fields such as audio communications, video production, electricity and electronics, instructional engineering, and computer graphics and design.
Edgewood High School senior Yuriko Chavez’s poetic perspective on social justice won her the 2019-20 Romero Scholarship for Excellence in Spoken Word on Jan. 20. Chavez’s poem submission “Mission First, Mission Always” was ranked No. 1 on four out of the five judges’ score cards.
Plymouth Elementary School’s community will come together to celebrate Lunar New Year during a family night. Celebrating the Year of the Rat, the event is set to have many mouse-themed performances. Students will take part in musical performances and skits, and families will have the opportunity to make shadow puppets of the zodiac animals and perform on a puppet stage. Other activities include Chinese hacky sacks and paper fortune tellers.
The Río Hondo Police Academy will host an “All Class Reunion” for graduates of the academy dating to its first class in 1964. The reunion is the second annual event and is expected to draw scores of former cadets from law enforcement agencies across the state. The gathering follows the graduation of the Academy’s Class 209 on Feb. 6. There are roughly 39 cadets in the class; more than 140 cadets graduated in 2019 and thousands have passed through the academy since it opened.
Baldwin Park Unified School District and Foothill Family have expanded a decade-long partnership to include new Medi-Cal certified satellite offices at Margaret Heath and Walnut elementary schools. Since Jan. 24, the satellite offices have offered daily services to more students, including individual and family therapy focused on prevention and early intervention.
Lynwood Unified High School students will have the opportunity to earn on-the-spot acceptance to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and get their college application fees waived when a caravan of college recruiters and admission counselors visit District campuses. The Lynwood Unified Equity Department has worked with seniors to ensure they have prepared transcripts and test scores for the caravan, which will include Tuskegee University and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.
IRS-certified students from Río Hondo College will provide free basic income tax return preparation for individuals and families who earned $56,000 or less in 2019 as part of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. The program will run from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Fridays from Jan. 31 through April 10 at the El Monte Educational Center, 3017 Tyler Ave., El Monte. It will be closed Feb. 14 and March 27.
Nearly 100 Buena Park School District parents learned how their children will receive in-depth instruction in video production, coding, engineering and college preparedness during the District’s recent Passion Program Project Showcase. The showcase, held at Buena Park Junior High School on Jan. 23, featured information booths about each school’s Passion Program and described how elementary school programs will feed into middle schools to create strong educational pathways.
Several Bonita Unified students walked into class with a spring in their step when classes resumed following the holiday break. Thanks to a Bonita Unified partnership with Sempra Energy and Claremont-based nonprofit Shoes that Fit, 75 Bonita Unified School District students received new footwear as the centerpiece of holiday gift baskets assembled by the District.
