Hawthorne Press Tribune Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 61, No. 14 - April 4, 2019 Inside This Issue Calendar of Events.............3 Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................5 Classifieds............................3 Entertainment......................2 Food.......................................5 Hawthorne Happenings....3 Lawndale..............................4 Legals.......................... 3,4,6,7 Pets........................................8 Weekend Forecast Friday Cloudy 64˚/56˚ Saturday Cloudy 65˚/56˚ Sunday Partly Cloudy 73˚/61˚ The Weekly Newspaper of Hawthorne CVUHSD Career Day 2019 The Hawthorne High Cougars were dressed to impress and made connections with future employers during last week’s Centinela Valley Union High School District’s Career Day event. Photo: Hawthorne High Mayor Touts Success of Local Schools in State of City Address By Derrick Deane in 2018 along with Hawthorne Math and Mayor Alex Vargas touted the success of Science which was named a California Hawthorne schools in his State of the City Distinguished School this year. “They have a address. “There’s a reason why CNBC has program called Project Lead the Way, which noted the city of Hawthorne as the best has been implemented at a lot of school sites place to buy a home in California,” Vargas that they have,” Vargas said. “This program said. “There’s five metrics that they use and exposes the students to STEM curriculum and one of those metrics is livability and one of the grants are very competitive and they’ve those elements of the livability component won. That’s a great program, STEM. We’re is education.” an aerospace hub, so it all makes sense.” There are five school districts: Hawthorne Vargas lauded the contribution of local School District, Wiseburn Unified School business leaders, business owners and community District, Centinela Valley Union High School groups for the success of Hawthorne’s District represented by Hawthorne High schools. “They’ve adopted a Bully Prevention School, L.A. Unified School District with Program. That was a big theme in the one school, and Lawndale Elementary School recent years with a lot of highly publicized District with one school as well. “There is no suicides,” Vargas said. “They’ve also been able question that we have a strong educational to implement a district-wide uniform policy network here in the city of Hawthorne,” and you know how hard it is to sometimes Vargas said. “That’s why I’d like to highlight get everybody on board with the uniforms. the schools this year. Something different. They were able to do that and it has already Something I haven’t done.” taking place in many of the schools.” Vargas said that the city has a “high Within Wiseburn, Vargas announced that concentration of science-based schools with there were two California Distinguished academies, charters and magnet programs.” Schools and that the District also celebrated the He explained, “It’s not a coincidence that opening of its new high school campus.“There we’re a technology hub as we have SpaceX are three different focuses,” Vargas said of the here, the Boring Company, the solar energy high school. “One of them is technological, company that we have, Tesla as well and even the other one is more art-based, and the other more aerospace companies that are looking one is general education. If you go to the to move in here to the city of Hawthorne.” campus, there’s three floors. They basically Vargas began by stating a U.S. News and refurbished a building that had aerospace World Report study that found Hawthorne operations going on and they were able to Math and Science Academy is ranked as the dedicate each floor to one of the schools.” number 10 best public school in California Vargas added that is you go inside, there is and number 95 best public high school in an escalator right in the middle of the building the nation. “A lot of other schools have used and students can see each of the floors. that benchmark to see where they lie, so “Even though they are distinct schools, they we’re very proud of our Hawthorne School are able to get together when it comes to District,” Vargas said. general school meetings,” Vargas said. “If Vargas added that Jefferson School was you go, you’re going to be very impressed. named a California Distinguished School I invite you to make an appointment and ask the front office to show you around. It’s your investment. It’s your tax money, so you should be able to see this and be proud of what you have done.” Vargas moved on to Hawthorne High and Centinela Valley and touted how the schools have been renovated over the past couple years.“They’ve been able to get the bond money to be refurbished and right now if you drive by, you’ll see how modern the façade looks and inside the technological wonders that they have in there,” Vargas said. “The labs are awesome.” Vargas added that Hawthorne High School is in phase two of a new 52-classroom building. He also took a moment to highlight the academies that the high school has, including the Manufacturing and Engineering Academy, the Criminal Justice Academy, and the Technical Arts and Design Academy. “It think it’s really nice to see that they have been able to get the money and distinguish themselves with these academies,” Vargas said. “Just like our other school districts are doing.” Hawthorne High’s dual-enrollment program that allows students to enroll in local community colleges and earn college credits also received praise from Vargas. This past year, Hawthorne High School students were able to earn 473 semester courses. “I believe that it is important to support all of our school districts,” Vargas said. “Not one is more important than the other. That might have happened before, but I think that it is important and when we’ve done that I believe the most recent administrations in the Hawthorne City Council have done that -- the attitude has changed. All of the school districts are rising together and that’s why you see the high property values in Hawthorne because we have an awesome education system.” •
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