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Rebuttal to: Inglewood’s Choice to Quickly Close Elementary School Harms Children and Hurts Our Community

The state of Inglewood Unified School District (IUSD) has improved significantly since I was elected in 2017. IUSD is on track to start transitioning out of receivership, we achieved a positive budget certification this year for the first time since going into receivership in 2012, our facilities have improved significantly and we are always planning for our future needs, and lastly our entire IUSD leadership team came together to provide a safe quality educational experience during COVID-19. You can see for yourself a vast improvement of our schools from where they were just a few years ago. 

P.S. Arts and Warren Lane Elementary Students Honor Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens at his home in Chicago, in his forties, showing his four gold medals in an undated photo, which he won in the 1936 Olympic Games. (AP Photo) Warren Lane K-6 recently unveiled the mural, a P.S. ARTS Community Mural Project led by Teaching Artist Tiffany Graham and inspired by Olympian Jesse Owens. Parents, teachers, and students all pitched in, and the mural design incorporated original student art work. (Courtesy Photo) Started during Black History Month, the mural acts as a daily reminder to students. In an effort to improve school culture and climate through the arts, P.S. ARTS

Kerry Washington: On the importance of arts in schools

Emmy nominated actress, Kerry Washington, star of the ABC hit series Scandal, recently visited Warren Lane Elementary School in Inglewood, CA. She is a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities (PCAH) which has a signature program entitled Turnaround Arts. Under this initiative, thirty-five underachieving schools in the nation, are partnered with celebrities who assist with integrating arts into the curriculum in order to improve academic achievement.Washington tells how vital the arts were to her growing up. “I always joke that for me arts programs were like a third parent because my parents worked full time. Rather

State Takes-Over Inglewood Unified School District

Kent Taylor, IUSD State Administrator presents his plan to restore financial management to the troubled school district     Board Members Now Advisors, Superintendent Gone   Last week, a standing-room only crowd of parents, elected officials, and Inglewood Unified School District (IUSD) employees listened intently as California’s Supt. of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson, announced that Kent Taylor, a product of the Inglewood School System, would lead the IUSD, the existing board members would serve as unpaid advisors, and the superintendent had been relieved of duty.   Taylor, previously serving as the superintendent of education in southern Kern County, is charged with