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Rocio Rivas has won the race to represent Highland Park and other nearby communities on the L.A. Unified school board. | Image from Facebook

Election 2022: Rocío Rivas wins local school board seat in a race with big implications for public education

11/23/202211/24/2022 T.A. Hendrickson8306 Comments

By T.A. Hendrickson

Rocío Rivas, an expert in education policy, has won the Los Angeles Unified school board race to represent District 2, which includes Highland Park, Cypress Park and other communities in and near Northeast Los Angeles.

Rivas’ victory signals a shift on the seven-member school board because it creates a 4-3 majority of members who favor unionized traditional public schools over generally nonunion charter schools, . . .

Art by Jessica Calaguas

The benefits of reading

07/07/202207/25/2022 admin920

By Shiogo Allen

Reading is a great way to pass the time. Want to learn something new? Travel the world? Have some fun? Experience something awesome? Try reading. It has wonderful benefits and can even improve your sleep, Shiogo Allen knows a lot about reading. Take two minutes and learn why reading can make your life better.

This is the logo of Girls Can Create - an Eagle Rock High School Club for young women (and non-binary) founded in 2020.

Girls Can Create

06/02/202206/02/2022 Margaret Irwin6581 Comment

By Margaret Irwin
Tomiko Younge and Sidney Hament founded the new school club, Girls Can Create, in the midst of the 2020 pandemic lockdown. They dreamed of social justice and creativity co-existing in a space for their fellow students, also quarantined. Younge and Hament graduate this year but the Club, now numbering 50 members has become their legacy. Margaret Irwin brings you this success story right here.

Art by Lauren Acevedo. Photos from Reddit.

Weird food combos rated and tried

05/06/202205/13/2022 Lauren Acevedo1157

By Lauren Acevedo Editor’s Note: We wanted to find a way to let the community know what local high schoolers are thinking. So we have collaborated with aspiring journalists and faculty at Eagle Rock High to bring you a selection of stories published recently in “Eagle’s Scream,” the school newspaper. Here’s the second one: There […]

A message chalked by students on a walkway at Occidental College reads, “Protect Oxy AAPI.” The College administration is facing criticism by students, faculty and staff for its handling of an anti-Asian text exchange between two students. | Photo by: Grace Meadows/The Occidental

At Occidental College, fallout continues from racist, anti-Asian text exchange between two students

02/14/202202/14/2022 T.A. Hendrickson12202 Comments

By T.A. Hendrickson

Occidental College President Harry J. Elam, Jr. will make another attempt on Monday to address the uproar over the College’s handling of a racist anti-Asian text exchange between two students that came to light on
Feb. 1.
The text exchange at the heart of the matter began with one student texting her friend: “all asian people need to die.”

Derek Steinorth, a veteran teacher and administrator, is the new principal of Eagle Rock Junior/Senior High School. | Photo courtesy of LAUSD

Derek Steinorth is the new principal at Eagle Rock Junior/Senior High School

11/09/202111/15/2021 admin24851 Comment

Mr. Derek Steinorth has been selected as the Principal of Eagle Rock Junior/Senior High School. He will begin this assignment on December 1, 2021.

Mr. Steinorth brings over 30 years of educational experience as a middle and high school teacher and administrator. Read more about Mr. Steinorth here.