The Weekly Newspaper of Manhattan Beach Herald Publications - El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Lawndale, & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 Vol. 6, No. 11 November 7, 2013 Inside This Issue Business & Professional.........................6 Calendar...............................2 Classifieds............................7 Crossword Puzzle...............7 Food.......................................5 Pets........................................8 Police Reports.....................2 Politically Speaking............6 Seniors..................................3 Sports....................................4 Weekend Forecast Record-Breaking Amount Raised for Children, Education The Skechers Foundation’s 2013 Pier-to-Pier Friendship Walk earned $1 million for children with special needs and education. With presenting sponsor Nickelodeon, Skechers President Michael Greenberg and celebrities Jimmy Kimmel, Brooke Burke-Charvet and Tommy Lasorda, the fifth-annual walk also saw a record 10,000-plus walkers, making it the largest event of its kind for these causes in Southern California. • ‘Fuel Your School’ Helps Fuel School Education Programs By Charles Best, Founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org Thirteen years ago, I began teaching history at Wings Academy, a public high school in the Bronx. My new students and colleagues were awesome, but I could see that the school where I was teaching did not have the same resources as the schools I’d attended. At my old high school, we went on field trips; we had graphing calculators and were given the supplies to do just about any art project. We did not want for anything. Not so for my students in the Bronx. As their teacher, I saw firsthand that all schools are not created equally. My colleagues and I spent a lot of our own money on copy paper and pencils, but we often couldn’t afford the resources that would get our students excited about learning. We’d talk about books our students should read, a field trip we wanted to take or a microscope that would bring science to life. I figured there were people out there who wanted to help our students, if they could see where their money was going. So, using a pencil and paper, I drew a website where teachers could post classroom project requests and donors could choose a project they wanted to support. Thirteen years later, our website has channeled educational materials to 9 million students, the majority from low-income communities and many of whom are learning English as a second language. Our site has connected more than 1 million donors and will help bring more than $55 million in resources to classrooms this school year. This support – from schools, teachers, school districts, community members and collaborations with companies like Chevron – is helping to offset the more than $1.6 billion teachers spent last year on their classrooms nationwide (Source: 2013 National School Supply and Equipment). We’re proud of the calculators, microscopes and books that we’ve delivered to 161,000 teachers across the United States. But there’s still a lot of work to be done, especially in the area of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. While roughly 75 percent of our nation’s high school students are not proficient in mathematics when they complete 12th grade (Source: Association Retail Market Awareness Study), the U.S. Department of Labor projects that 15 of the 20 fastest growing occupations in 2014 will require math or science to successfully compete for those jobs (Source: National Assessment of Educational Progress). To help keep large industries competitive here in select cities in the South Bay portion of Los Angeles County, we need to help our students gain the skills to be successful in the occupations of the future. School budgets are tight. Many teachers, without dipping into their own wallet, do not have access to materials that are critical to improving interest in their classrooms, including in STEM education, to help bring difficult concepts to life for their students. It’s going to take a lot to strengthen teaching models in STEM education and Chevron has been a champion for teachers, including those who teach STEM education, for quite some time. Since 2010, Fuel Your School, an innovative teacher-based program, has affected more than 1 million students by helping fund projects teachers post on DonorsChoose.org. This year, Chevron is bringing their Fuel Your School program to select cities in the South Bay portion of Los Angeles County. For every purchase of eight or more gallons of fuel at a participating Chevron or Texaco station in October, Chevron will contribute $1, up to a total contribution of $500,000 in select cities in the South Bay portion* of Los Angeles County, to fund eligible public school classroom projects posted by local teachers. Through Chevron’s Fuel Your School program, Ms. Hernandez of Kit Carson Elementary School in Hawthorne received a myriad of design and construction materials, which allows her students to gain a deeper understanding of math by showing real world application such as the construction of bridges. In addition to Ms. Hernandez’ project, since 2010, Chevron’s Fuel Your School program has already helped fund 8,915 classroom projects at 1,924 schools in select communities in the U.S. You can make an impact too. Visit www. FuelYourSchool.com to see the materials teachers are requesting in your area and from which schools, and encourage teachers in your participating school district to post their classroom projects today. Right now, we have the opportunity to help more students get the materials they need in their classrooms, including those to help prepare them for the STEM careers of the future. • Friday Partly Cloudy 76˚/55˚ Saturday Sunny 72˚/55˚ Sunday Partly Cloudy 66˚/55˚
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