Claremont School News
Jamiqua Johnson kisses her son Cyrus Johnson as he begins his first day of transitional kindergarten Wednesday at Condit Elementary School. Hundreds of students, staff and faculty returned to Claremont Unified School District’s 10 campuses Wednesday to begin the 2025-26 school year. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Citrus College received a College Cost Reduction and Access Act (CCRAA) grant to encourage under-represented students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in 2008. The campus’ STEM Center was opened one year later. Last Thursday, Citrus College held a press conference to announce that it had been awarded a $4,285,000 Title V Hispanic Serving […]
The topic of Claremont Unified School District’s interdistrict transfer (IDT) students continues to be one of the biggest issues among members of the Claremont community. School board candidates Joe Farrell, Hilary LaConte and Sam Mowbray fielded 14 questions during the Active Claremont sponsored candidates’ forum on Thursday with 4 of the questions focusing on IDTs. […]
While there are 2 seats up for grabs for this year’s Claremont Unified School District board election, the Claremont Faculty Association is endorsing just one candidate through this November. CFA chose to endorse incumbent Hilary LaConte during its monthly representative council meeting on Tuesday at the Alexander Hughes Center. The decision was made after a […]
Claremont Unified School District board member Hilary LaConte, Claremont resident Joe Farrell and former board member Sam Mowbray are the 3 candidates who are vying for the 2 open seats on the CUSD school board this fall. The road to November 8th is officially starting this month with all 3 candidates hosting their campaign kick-off […]
Sumner Elementary School will not be going into Program Improvement for the 2011-12 school year. After being on the Program Improvement watch list during the 2010-11 year, Sumner increased by 23 points (836 to 859) in its Academic Performance Index (API) score and met the Academic Yearly Progress targets in both English and math for […]
Chaparral Elementary School’s new principal Julie Olesniewicz believes nurturing the “whole child” is vital to providing a good education. Appointed by the Claremont Unified School District Board of Education on June 2nd, Ms. Olesniewicz is succeeding former Chaparral Principal Lori Kerns and wants to continue the school’s endeavor to develop students academically, socially and holistically. […]