The city of Inglewood hosted this year’s Black History Celebration on Market Street on Feb. 24, to showcase art, poetry, fashion, dance, music and food through families and neighbors alike.
Inglewood Unified School District recently hosted the National College Resource Foundation’s Historic Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Caravan Tour, a part of the Black College Expo. The school district is on a mission to ensure all of its students are college and career ready.
Gloria Gray received nearly twice as many votes as incumbent George Dotson in the runoff election for Inglewood council District 1. According to the results at Sentinel press time, Gray had 1,485 votes or 64.72% compared to Dotson’s 809 votes or 35.28%.
It will be up to IUSD’s legislators to introduce a bill during this legislative session for the return of IUSD to local control.
Wilder’s Preparatory Academy students demonstrated academic achievement exceeding California averages on the 2022 Statewide Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBA) standardized tests.
Last week, I wrote a commentary marking 10 years since the Inglewood Unified School District (IUSD) Board of Education lost control of Inglewood schools. I requested that it not be printed when I was informed that Dr. Erika Torres had announced she was stepping down from her position as IUSD County Administrator because she had a recurrence of breast cancer. The commentary was very critical of Torres’ administration so under the circumstances, I decided to rewrite it removing the focus from her. I wish her well as she concentrates on her health and her family’s wellbeing On Oct. 3, 2012,
On Tuesday the Inglewood City Council voted unanimously to approve the sale of publicly-owned property to the developers of the Los Angeles Clippers’ new arena.
Murphy’s Bowl LLC is the company that will develop the Inglewood Basketball and Entertainment Center (IBEC). Murphy’s Bowl can purchase the property for the total price of $66.25 million. The price will be shared among several local entities, including Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the Inglewood Unified School District, and the City of Inglewood.
In an effort to help level the educational playing field for Inglewood youth, Los Angeles Rams Quarterback Jared Goff has made a commitment to support Inglewood Unified School District to address education inequities.
Morningside junior Amaya Givens uses her gladdening attitude and her passion to help others on the cheerleading squad and beyond. Joining the team helped develop methods to juggle her schooling and her other extracurricular activities.
This time of the year is hectic for Morningside senior Morgan Redford. While she is a member of the cheerleading squad, she competes on the school volleyball team. Later this month, basketball games will begin, and Redford will start her fourth varsity season with the Monarchs girls basketball team.
Leonard partnered with the L.A. Clippers foundation and nonprofit organization Baby2Baby to donate one million backpacks to all the students of the Los Angeles, Inglewood and Moreno Valley Unified school districts.
The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) and the Science of Sport organization celebrated the first year of STEM education in the Inglewood Unified School District. A group of 500 3rdto 5thyear elementary students participated in interactive STEM experiments led by current and former Los Angeles Dodgers players.
On Tuesday, Los Angeles Ram’s towels whirled above the heads of students inside the Worthington Elementary School auditorium accompanied by chanting, “Who’s House?…Rams’ House.” Students eagerly awaited the appearance of Rams’ All-Pro running back Todd Gurley for his Childhood Literacy initiative in conjunction with Pizza Hut, the Rams, and The BOOK IT! Literacy Project.
Blake Griffin and the L.A. Clippers Foundation have partnered with non-profit Vision To Learn and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to provide free eye exams and glasses to every LAUSD student in need throughout the district. Out of over 600,000 LAUSD students, an estimated 15 to 20 percent need glasses. Over the next two years, every student K-12th grade in LAUSD who needs an eye exam and glasses will get them, free of charge, thanks to the generous support of the L.A. Clippers Foundation, Blake Griffin, and LAUSD.
The Los Angeles Rams held a day of service at Warren Lane Elementary School in Inglewood, to assist with a school beautification project.