Long Beach Press Telegram ~ November 28, 2016 http://www.presstelegram.com/social-affairs/20161128/long-beach-elementary-school-renamed-for-late-sen-jenny-oropeza A Long Beach elementary school was formally renamed Monday for the late state Sen. Jenny Oropeza, who began her political career on the city’s school board. Jenny Oropeza’s sister, Lynne Oropeza, smiles as she sits with other family members during a ...

Everything Long Beach ~ November 28th, 2016 http://www.everythinglongbeach.com/local-elementary-school-renamed-late-sen-jenny-oropeza-today/ In honor of a distinguished 22-year public-service career, the late Sen. Jenny Oropeza of Long Beach will have a local elementary school formally renamed after her today, Monday, Nov. 28 beginning at 10 a.m. The open-to-the public ceremony at 700 Locust St. ...

Pomona College ~ November 21st, 2016 https://www.pomona.edu/news/2016/11/21-college-university-presidents-call-us-uphold-and-continue-daca Higher education leaders cite “moral imperative” and “national necessity” in supporting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. As of Nov. 22 at 5 p.m. PST, 250 college and university presidents from public and private institutions across the U.S. have signed statement offering to meet with U.S. ...

As you may already know, El  Colegio de la Frontera Norte  (COLEF) and the  California-Mexico Studies Center  (CMSC) will host an international seminar on  November 17 and 18, 2016  at the  COLEF campus in Tijuana, Mexico; to address the prospects and policy agenda for the 60-million U.S. Latino population, in ...

La medida elimina el requisito de enseñar únicamente en inglés, y permitirá a las escuelas públicas instruir con un programa en diferentes idiomas Por Jorge Luis Macías, La Opinión ~ 09 Noviembre, 2016 Proposición 58: regresa la educación bilingüe a las aulas [Foto: En clases de Bilingual Birdies, la facilitadora Shae ...

By Jazmine Ulloa, The LA Times ~ November 8th, 2016 http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-election-day-2016-proposition-58-bilingual-1478220414-htmlstory.html Public schools in California will have more power to develop their own bilingual and multilingual programs after voters on Tuesday approved a measure repealing English-only instruction across the state. With nearly 21% of 24,849 precincts reporting, Proposition 58 appeared ...

Monica Gallardo, The Daily 49er ~ November 6, 2016 http://www.daily49er.com/news/2016/11/06/educational-opportunity-program-celebrates-50-years/ Approximately 200 former students of the Educational Opportunity Program reminisced about their academic experience during the program’s 50th anniversary celebration Friday morning at The Pointe inside the Walter Pyramid. Invited guests and their families watched as various speakers discussed the ...

By Kirk Semple, The New York Times ~ November 5th, 2016 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/world/americas/mexico-immigrants.html?emc=edit_th_20161106&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=49022863&_r=1 [Featured Image: Gloria Farciert, 21, a Brooklyn College senior, and her maternal grandmother, Adelaida Ramírez, 76, in San Miguel de Lozano, Mexico. CreditRodrigo Cruz for The New York Times] MEXICO CITY — The young Mexican couple packed their possessions ...

By Josh Dulaney, Long Beach Press Telegram ~ November 4th, 2016 http://www.presstelegram.com/social-affairs/20161104/csulb-honors-eop-founder-for-50-years-of-giving-educational-opportunities-to-disadvantaged Educators and administrators at Cal State Long Beach gathered Friday at The Pointe inside Walter Pyramid to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the university’s Educational Opportunity Program, and honor the former professor who oversaw the degree pathway for historically ...

By Soren Sum, Long Beach Post ~ November 3rd, 2016 http://lbpost.com/news/2000009881-robert-e-lee-elementary-renamed-after-long-beach-activist-with-ties-to-cesar-chavez?utm_source=newsletter_284&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=robert-e-lee-elementary-renamed-after-long-beach-activist-with-ties-to-cesar-chavez&acm=33991_284 In the wake of the deadly Charleston, South Carolina church shooting of black congregation members last year, the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) Board of Education created a committee tasked with recommending school names to replace that of ...