Claremont School News

Lately, news from educational institutions has been grim, with budget concerns, cutbacks and layoffs dominating headlines. This climate makes Claremont McKenna College’s latest achievement, the successful conclusion of its George R. Roberts Faculty Leadership Initiative, especially encouraging. The college has matched and doubled the largest gift for direct faculty development in its history, resulting in […]

George Hickman, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, has dealt with war, racism and the Great Depression in the 1930s. Yet the war hero and educator had a single message for the students of Foothill Country Day School on Thursday—live your dream. Mr. Hickman was the special guest speaker of Foothill’s International-Grandparents’ Day, an event […]

Equipped with iPhones and camcorders, Claremont High School students were the stars of a 24-hour film fest last week. CHS students collected nearly 3 hours of footage over a 24-hour period as a part of Claremont High School’s “Through Your Eyes” project, capturing video of students, filmed by students for a unique Claremont documentary.   […]

The Claremont Unified School District board unanimously elected Jeff Stark as it new board president during the board’s annual organizational meeting on Thursday night. Mr. Stark had served as board vice president throughout the 2011 governing board year and now succeeds former board president Beth Bingham, who chose not to run for board member re-election […]

The Claremont Unified School District board unanimously approved a resolution that will require communication with district legal counsel to be funneled through the superintendent, superintendent’s designee or by the board’s majority vote. But the discussion before the approval centered on an alleged Brown Act violation at a board meeting on May 19, 2011. Board member […]

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. […]