The Road to College By May S. Ruiz I hope your children got the chance to breathe, decompress, and savor the lull because they are now once more face-to-face with the realities of high school life. High schoolers in the San Gabriel Valley confront exceedingly fierce competition. Students here: get perfect SAT scores; have 4.0…
Parents from local schools have a new tool in their back-to-school bag of tricks this year as all of their school’s supply lists are now posted on TeacherLists.com. With just one or two clicks, parents can find their child’s exact supply list and then click right over to pre-filled shopping carts on Target, Walmart, Office Depot,…
Originially posted July 9 at 11:42 a.m. / Updated July 10 at 10:53 a.m. By Susan Motander The Campaign for Business and Education Excellence (CBEE) has placed Monrovia High School on its 2018-2019 California Honor Roll. This honor is not one for which a school may apply, but rather is based solely on objective achievement data…
Mt. Sierra College in Monrovia shut down suddenly last week, leaving students who expected to take part in a graduation ceremony in the dark. The president of the Monrovia-based technical college gave students and faculty one day’s notice of its closure in an email, according to a local newspaper report. “The college, due to severe…
The Road to College By May S. Ruiz We’ve enjoyed mild climate so far but May gray and June gloom are rapidly being replaced by summer weather. We, in Pasadena and the rest of the San Gabriel Valley, are used to soaring temperatures in the triple digits and many of us are looking for ways…
By Susan Motander Recently, the innovative individuals at Oak Crest Institute of Science, winner of the Monroe Award as the business citizen of the year, presented its first annual symposium to explain some of the projects which they are involved in; but that was not the entire program. The keynote speaker was Dr. Jerome Zach,…
Fifth and sixth grade Immaculate Conception School (IC) students are participating in Camp Code. Students will explore coding, robotics, engineering, design, and hands on problem solving. The program was funded by a generous donor and Bishop O’Connell recently stopped by to inspire these future leaders in technology. When students return to school in September, they…
Monrovia Unified celebrated 270 students who graduated from the District’s Adult School, Canyon Oaks High School, and Mountain Park School during ceremonies that celebrated the achievements and successes of each student. On May 30, Monrovia Community Adult School held its commencement ceremony for graduates who had completed the graduation requirements for the schools’ programs. Students…
Monrovia families are buzzing about expansions in instructional options at Wild Rose School, including this year’s successful restructuring as a School of Creative Arts and the 2019-20 addition of dual language immersion in Spanish. Spaces in the Spanish language program are already limited and the school is celebrating a partnership with Disney Musicals in Schools…
As a member of the National Honors Society and Humanities Academy president, Lailah Spicer was one of the Monrovia High graduates in the class of 2019. Proud dad, Monrovia’s mayor pro-tem, Larry Spicer was beaming from head to toe. Congratulations, Lailah!