Follow-up Story: Lynwood Unified School District has budgeted an additional $6.95 million in 2016-17 to expand band, dance and theater programs, provide teacher training on the California Standards and offer more after-school and summer programs as part of its Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP). The Board of Education voted to approve the LCAP and its 2016-17 budget on June 28.
Follow-up Story: Lynwood Unified School District has budgeted an additional $6.95 million in 2016-17 to expand band, dance and theater programs, provide teacher training on the California Standards and offer more after-school and summer programs as part of its Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP). The Board of Education voted to approve the LCAP and its 2016-17 budget on June 28.
Follow-up Story: Four Lynwood Unified students gained creative inspiration during a recent trek to Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, where they joined professional filmmakers and 200 New York student filmmakers in screening original works. Seniors Oscar Dominguez and Christian Cuevas from Lynwood High School and juniors Jasmine Wheatley and Virginia Ortega from the AdvancePath Academy watched other student and professional films at the festival while screening two of their own. Photos are available.
The National College Resources Foundation has honored 40 African-American Lynwood Unified graduates who achieved academic success after assistance from The Movement, a program coordinated by the foundation that helps students pursue college goals. Lynwood High graduate Dazane Tippins was living in foster care when her mother died of cancer four years ago. As she and her two younger sisters shuttled among family members’ homes, peer advisers from The Movement helped her keep up with assignments and learn about college opportunities. Tippins will pursue pre-medical studies at Harris-Stowe University in St. Louis. The students were recognized at a Rites of Passage Graduation Celebration at Firebaugh High School. Photos are available.
Lynwood High School Girls Athletics Director Dana Wilkerson has been inducted in the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame for her outstanding sportsmanship. Wilkerson is a 1987 Indiana All-Star, graduating from Anderson High School as her county’s all-time leading scorer with 1,692 points. As an undergraduate at Cal State Long Beach, she made four NCAA Tournament appearances and played in the final four in 1988. Wilkerson has taught at Lynwood High for 17 years. Photos are available.
Susana Chavez, a third-grade teacher at Lynwood Unified’s Marshall Elementary School, has been named the District’s 2016 Teacher of the Year. Chavez stays after school helping students with math, teaches students to be generous through sock drives and encourages parents to be an integral part of her classroom. Cynthia Esteban from Lincoln Elementary has been named Instructional Coach of the Year. Photos are available.
Follow-up Story: Twenty sixth-graders at Lynwood Unified’s Roosevelt Elementary School were riveted as a Department of Justice Agent pulled an FBI bulletproof vest out of a bag and held it up for all to see during the school’s annual Career Day. The agent was one of more than 30 guest speakers to visit 500 students in classrooms across Roosevelt on June 6. Lynwood Unified’s two high schools, three middle schools and 12 elementary schools all held career days in May and June. Photos are available.
Follow-up Story: Lynwood Unified celebrated nearly 1,000 graduates from Lynwood, Firebaugh and Vista high schools and Pathway Independent Studies program during commencement exercises on June 13 and 14, with the exhilarated Class of 2016 Knights, Falcons and Eagles ready to take their next steps toward college and careers. More than 92 percent of Lynwood Unified graduates plan to attend four-year universities. Of these students, more than 25 percent plan to pursue majors in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, while more than 75 percent say they are the first in their family to attend a four-year university. Photos are available.
Students at Bellflower and Lynwood unified school districts are now able to enroll for fall 2016 in 14 new hands-on career technical education (CTE) courses in policing, firefighting, nursing, culinary arts, visual arts, business and health. The courses are being offered through California Advancing Pathways for Students (CalAPS), a joint powers authority set up by the districts to expand CTE offerings. The semester-long courses will run in afternoons and on weekends at high schools in both districts.
Senior Carlos Henriquez became the sixth Lynwood High student to graduate from a certificate program at Cerritos College while enrolled in high school. As part of Project Lead The Way’s engineering career pathway, Henriquez received a Certificate of Achievement in Engineering Design and Technology after completing nine college courses. Henriquez is certified as an associate in mechanical design and expects to complete a certificate as a professional in mechanical design this summer. He will study mechanical engineering at UC Merced in fall.
