Claremont School News
Pro-Palestinian activists converged on Pomona College’s May 12 commencement at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and some graduates reportedly turned their backs while Pomona President Gabrielle Starr delivered her commencement address. Video posted on Instagram showed demonstrators confronting police and security personnel outside the Shrine, with both sides pushing one another. No injuries were reported. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Activist Ady Barkan, renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Keller ’70 will deliver commencement addresses to the Pomona College class of 2021. The College’s 128th commencement exercises will […]
by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com Tucked away in the Claremont foothills north of Base Line Road, The Webb Schools, with its 400 students and 150-acre campus, is among the most […]
by Peter Weinberger | pweinberger@claremont-courier.com The day at Our Lady of the Assumption School started like any other. Parents waited in line to drop of their kids, all bundled up […]
by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com As Covid-19 numbers continue to spike in Claremont, Los Angeles County and statewide, making plans of any kind right now is rife with complications. For students […]
Citrus College Superintendent/President Geraldine M. Perri, Ph.D., will retire on July 1, 2021. Although she first shared the news with the college community in December 2020, Superintendent/President Perri’s retirement plans […]
In a year of surprises and change, Scripps College President Lara Tiedens will resign from the college effective April 15, 2021, moving to New York to become the Executive Director […]
Claremont Unified School District Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services Julie Olesniewicz has been selected to become the interim superintendent for the district. In an email forwarded to the COURIER Superintendant […]
After more than 20 years of service, Susan M. Keith will be retiring from the Citrus Community College District Board of Trustees at the end of the year. […]
by Steven Felschundneff | steven@claremont-courier.com Presumptive new school board member, Bob Fass, says he ran his campaign on a message of social equity and inclusiveness, but the skills he hopes […]
by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com It wasn’t an unusual spot for Kathy Archerto have spent an election night, glued to the screen, eagerly awaiting results. But this time she was […]
by Steven Felschundneff | steven@claremont-courier.com Claremont Unified School District Superintendent Jim Elsasser has accepted a position as superintendent of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, according to a news release […]
Scripps College’s Scripps Presents series continues with The 19th* co-founder Emily Ramshaw in conversation with The 19th* editor-at-large Erinn Haines over Zoom at 5 p.m. Thursday, October 8. The event […]
Teacher Heather Stradley provides nine-year-old Sade Dennis with some of the learning materials for the upcoming semester during an orientation on Tuesday at Mountain View Elementary School in Claremont. Today […]
by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com Claremont Unified School District has seen a steady drop in enrollment over the past several years, with classes closing and teachers’ positions left unfilled. “Over […]
Claremont Unified School District employees with the Best Learning After School Time program hold a protest on Thursday outside the Richard Kirkendall Education Center in Claremont. The CUSD Board of […]
by Steven Felschundneff | steven@claremont-courier.com On July 1 parents and caregivers of students at The Children’s School at Claremont McKenna College received a surprise email announcing that the school would […]