Claremont School News

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 were made official during the January 19, 2021, meeting of the Citrus Community College District Board of Trustees. “It has been an honor to be […]

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 of the Schwarzman Scholars, an international fellowship program for future leaders. Ms. Tiedens had spent five years at Scripps. Here is the resignation letter she […]

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 Jim Elsasser announced that the CUSD Board of Education selected Ms. Olesniewicz during it’s meeting on Thursday. The appointment runs from January 1 to June […]

    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.    Originally elected to the board in 1999, Trustee Keith represents area 2, which includes Claremont and portions of Pomona and La Verne. She was later […]

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 to bring to the board also include his many years in fundraising and managing budgets. As of Tuesday, Mr. Fass has received 10,012 votes, 36 […]

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 waiting on an outcome of her own, and at the end of the night it was good news: She’d been elected to the Claremont Unified […]

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 from the PYLUSD. Mr. Elsasser’s first day at his new job is scheduled for January 4, 2021, pending final approval of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified […]

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 is free and open to the public. Tickets are available at https://www.scrippscollege.edu/events, search “Ramshaw.” Of the many headlines volleyed our way over the past six […]

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 is the first day of instruction across Claremont Unified School District albeit not in a conventional way with classes being held online due to the […]

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 the past five years we’ve gone down, including this year, about 14 teachers due to declining enrollment,” said Kevin Ward, CUSD’s Assistant Superintendent, Human Resources, […]

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 Education is scheduled to vote Thursday evening on a recommendation to lay off the BLAST employees because the district can not offer the program for […]

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 not reopen for the fall 2020 or spring 2021 semesters. “We are committed to your child’s learning, growth, and safety at The Children’s School. We […]

Claremont High School graduate Isabella Jakini holds a picture of her friend Dana Sanchez as she receives her diploma from CHS Principal Brett O’Connor on Tuesday during a drive-up commencement at the school. Ms. Jakini brought her friend’s portrait along because Ms. Sanchez, who is also a member of the class of 2020, could not […]

by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com With Claremont Unified School District officially going to online school in the fall, parents and caregivers are readying for their new role as de-facto homeschool teachers and those who work outside the home are balancing this responsibility with full-time employment. Adjusting to the new, ever-changing normal has forced parents and […]

Months after its cancellation and subsequent rescheduling, Claremont High School’s in-person commencement has once again been cancelled. In an announcement sent out Thursday, CHS Principal Brett O’Connor said he had hoped  until recently that a modified graduation on July 30 could go forward. However, the surge in COVID-19 cases across the region, combined with the […]

by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com Claremont Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to implement a “blended learning program” for 2020-2021, and to open up each of its 10 campuses for in-person learning beginning September 2. In approving the recommendation from the district’s reopening task force it mandated the following: • Elementary schools will […]