Lawndale Tribune
The Weekly Newspaper of Lawndale
CalFresh Healthy Living Teaches Lawndale
Elementary Students About Good Nutrition
Lissette Bravo, Lawndale Elementary School District Community Wellness Health Educator, talks about the importance of health. She explains how the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health partnered with Lawndale Elementary School District to provide
nutrition education, gardening, and physical activity classes led by parent educators to help encourage and support healthy lifestyle choices through the CalFresh Healthy Living program. To find out more, go to: https://youtu.be/NlU2GLqlDb8. Photo courtesy
Lawndale Elementary School District.
Old paint. Solvents. Batteries. Computer
monitors. These are some of the
household hazardous waste and electronic
waste items you can bring to a Roundup
for recycling. It’s a great opportunity
to clean out your garage and clean up
the environment. Our free drive-thru,
drop-off events are a quick, convenient,
and common-sense way to
dispose of materials
too toxic to trash,
pour down a sink,
or dump in a
storm drain.
No Business Waste Accepted
Brought to you by the County of Los Angeles and
presented by Los Angeles County Public Works and Los
Angeles County Sanitation Districts in cooperation with
the cities of Carson, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne,
Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Lawndale, Manhattan
Beach, Redondo Beach, and Torrance.
Home-generated sharps waste such as hypodermic
needles, pen needles, syringes, lancets, and intravenous
needles SHOULD NOT be placed in your trash. Bring
them to the Roundups or visit www.CLEANLA.com for
alternate disposal options.
You can also take your used motor oil to more than
600 oil recycling centers in Los Angeles County. Call
1(888) CLEAN-LA for a complete listing.
TOO
TOXIC
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Household Hazardous
Waste & Electronic Waste
Drive-Thru
Collection Event
Saturday,
September 12, 2020
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Lawndale High School
Lloyde Parking Lot
14901 S. Inglewood Ave.
Lawndale
For more information
or an event schedule, call
(800) 238-0173, or
visit: www.CleanLA.com,
or www.lacsd.org/hhw
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Manhattan Beach Blvd.
Hawthorne Blvd.
S. Inglewood Ave.
Redondo Beach Ave.
Vail Ave.
Rosecrans Ave.
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Digital Gap from front page
“Our students will bridge the pandemic gap
with this technology, ensuring a successful
kickoff to the upcoming school year,” said
CEO Pamela Miller.
The “I Have a Dream-Foundation Los
Angeles” provides long-term support to
youth living in under-resourced communities,
enabling them to achieve their potential. All
chapters nationwide Project Lead the Way
(PLTW),” its hands-on science and techoriented
curriculum, to begin in kindergarten.
“promote values of higher education and career
success and providing opportunities through
financial resources, enrichment programs and
more.,” it says.
That academic, emotional and experiential
support is given to students from underserved
Greater Los Angeles communities beginning
in the first grade and continuing through
college graduation and even though the start
of their careers.
The Ed! Foundation in El Segundo is a
supporter of technology-based learning, too,
though Internet access among district students
is less of a pressing issue than in Inglewood
and Hawthorne. More than $200,000 in
grant money from the foundation paid for
biomedical curriculum, computer science and
robotics. “Project Lead the Way” continues
annually with hands-on science and techoriented
teaching, beginning in kindergarten
through El Segundo corporate partners and
individuals and families’ generous donations.
Inglewood and Hawthorne schools also receive
funding from their respective educational
foundations. The “I Have a Dream Foundation-
Los Angeles” adopted two first grade classes
at Daniel Freeman Elementary School, back
in 2006 and 2007. The programs collectively
served 95 percent African-Americans and
five percent Latino youth. The foundation’s
investment and follow-up with the Dreamer
Scholars were successful, as measured by
college attendance data. Three-fourths of the
first group attended colleges, and the remainder
joined the military or went to work out of
high school, the foundation reported. In the
second group, 80 percent enrolled in college
after graduation in June 2019.
The Closing the Digital Divide Task Force
also wants to locate and direct grants and
donations from corporate and grassroots
sources. Thurmond says the goal is to facilitate
donations, create more publicity, and
“cast a bigger spotlight on those who can
help,” according to Thurmond’s mid-April
announcement.
The task force and the El Segundo Education
Foundation accept donations and welcome
corporate and individual supporters. The Los
Angeles Rams also are involved with COVID
19 relief and community-based programs.
California officials estimate one in five
California students lacked broadband or a
computer to access distance learning. The
digital divide is widest in rural areas, where
only 34 percent of households are subscribed
to an internet service. Nearly eight in 10
households in urban areas are connected to
the web, according to an analysis of 2018
data done by EdSource.
Before the pandemic, one-quarter million
Los Angeles County households lacked the
basic tools for their children to participate in
online learning, found associated professor
Hernan Galperin with the USC Annenberg
School for Communication. Los Angeles Unified
Schools lost connection with thousands
of students after the March shutdown, it was
reported. Teachers just never heard again
from those students.
That could happen again in the 2020-21
school year, which is what the educational
foundations are working feverishly to avoid.
“Without equitable access to distance learning
technology while students are at home,
California risks exacerbating education inequality
across the state,” Ed Source warned
in a May article spotlighting the state’s
digital divide. •