Cleveland High School

An adult school student was stabbed Wednesday afternoon in an altercation at Cleveland High School in Reseda and later died of his wounds, law enforcement authorities said. The victim was a student at West Valley Occupational Center in Woodland Hills, according to Los Angeles Police Department Cmdr. Sharon Papa. He was believed to be 18. The student was attacked on one of the school's handball courts about 4 p.m. after an argument with two men who were described as being between 18 and 20, authorities said.

Los Angeles police said they relied heavily on students and their social media skills in tracking down and arresting a trio of suspects Thursday in the fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old at a Reseda high school. Using tweets from students, police said they were able to identify and ultimately arrest the suspects - two of them reputed gang members - in a Van Nuys neighborhood. Kevin Orellano was stabbed to death Wednesday as he was playing handball on campus, which he had attended before transferring to an occupational center last fall.

The best and brightest high school graduates from the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and Antelope valleys are honored each year as valedictorians. Various methods are use to choose the honorees, which produced up to 30 at some schools. Five valedictorians, including a set of twins, share their thoughts as they depart their familiar campuses in search of higher education. Fareed Elcott Residence: Encino School: Birmingham High School, Van Nuys GPA: 4.

An adult school student was stabbed Wednesday afternoon in an altercation at Cleveland High School in Reseda and later died of his wounds, law enforcement authorities said. The victim was a student at West Valley Occupational Center in Woodland Hills, according to Los Angeles Police Department Cmdr. Sharon Papa. He was believed to be 18. The student was attacked on one of the school's handball courts about 4 p.m. after an argument with two men who were described as being between 18 and 20, authorities said.

A 16-year-old Cleveland High School student was released from a hospital Wednesday, police said, one day after he was stabbed more than a dozen times in an attack near the Reseda campus. The boy, whose name was not made public, was taken to Northridge Hospital Medical Center after the assault Tuesday, and treated for wounds to his head, neck, back and chest. Most of the cuts, possibly caused by a steak knife, were not deep, authorities said.

In its infinite wisdom, in spite of overwhelming budget deficits, the Los Angeles Unified School District is building a nine-lane indoor swimming pool at Cleveland High School ("Labor Pool," Times Valley Edition, Nov. 16). My thanks to all the district employees who are taking second jobs, selling their homes, and making do with the bare necessities in order to make this pool possible by taking 12% pay cuts. ADRIENNE MACK Shadow Hills Mack is a teacher at Sylmar High School.

A 16-year-old girl from Cleveland High School was killed, and two other students wounded, in a gang-related shooting on a Northridge residential street Monday afternoon, police said. The dead girl was identified as Rocio Delgado, police said. "It appears to be gang-related," Los Angeles Homicide Detective Tom Broad said. "I think the gang problem in the San Fernando Valley is reaching a point where it is out of control."

Cleveland High School has won a $31,500 federal arts grant, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) announced Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The "Schools for the New Millennium Grant," given by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will support a program by Cleveland High and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that integrates art with the study of American history.

Confronting their racial, ethnic, gender and sexual-orientation differences head-on wasn't always easy for the 20 or so Reseda humanities magnet students who took a class in Interdisciplinary Theater Exchange. So the Cleveland High School 11th-graders made a production out of it--a theatrical production, that is.

The Cleveland High School indoor swimming pool will celebrate its reopening Thursday with a synchronized swimming exhibition and swim party. Renovations to the facility--including new electrical equipment, lighting and wider access steps--cost about $500,000. The pool was closed because of severe damage in the 1994 Northridge quake. It reopened a year later, only to be closed again in February 1998 after a defective electrical ground system was found to be inflicting mild shocks on swimmers.

When Kandi Boyd was called into a school assembly last year at Cleveland High School, she had no idea she was stepping into an innovative learning program based on the old-fashioned notion that personal attention can make a difference between success and failure in school.

It's 5:40 a.m. and two wrestlers are sitting in Reseda Cleveland's gymnasium. It's dark outside. There's no traffic yet on the 101. Overnight construction crews continue their work. But Gilbert Sanchez and Rafael Salvador are ready to begin practice. The Cleveland wrestling program is in its inaugural season. Because the school's two gyms are booked by the boys' and girls' basketball teams after school, wrestlers have no choice but to condition before the crack of dawn.

To say that Reseda Cleveland Coach Craig Cieslik is unconventional doesn't begin to scratch the surface. Clad in jean shorts, a sleeveless T-shirt, a ragged straw hat and tacky gold-rimmed glasses, Cieslik looks like an uncool lifeguard on his way to a nearby swimming pool. Add to that a stuttering disorder. "I thought there's no way he could be our coach," said lineman Mike Morales, recalling Cieslik's first day of practice a little more than a year ago.

Lydia Dubuisson is in her second season as Cleveland's linebackers coach. Dubuisson, 29, did not play while growing up in Texas but studied the game while serving as a student equipment manager at Texas A&M in the early 1990s. Dubuisson said she developed a love for coaching football after working with current and former college coaches Bob Davie, Tommy Tuberville and Phil Bennett.

Baby boomers don't like to admit they're growing old. Tweezers, rather than a cellular phone, is their most precious device because you can use it to pluck gray hairs and maintain the illusion of youth. So understand my trepidation in deciding to watch Drew Saberhagen of Calabasas High pitch. He's my Kryptonite. In covering high school sports for almost 25 years, I rarely felt fear until this assignment. But seeing Saberhagen forced me to face the obvious: I'm growing old.

A school district policeman was praised as a hero Friday for preventing a fight and shooting outside Grover Cleveland High School from escalating and injuring more people. The Reseda school's principal and the chief of the district police force said that Shane Stewart, 27, helped break up the brawl outside the school Thursday without firing his own weapon, probably saving others from injury. "He took everything into consideration in a split second," said Principal Al Weiner.

A funeral Mass will be said Saturday for Sam Douglas, who was one of the Valley's oldest public school teachers when he retired at age 73. Douglas, who injected logic and philosophy into his math classes at Cleveland High School, died Oct. 6 from complications of a recent stroke, said his niece, Maureen Douglas. He was 80. Born in Newelton, La., Douglas graduated from Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans and started teaching high school in 1949 in his home state.

Using works loaned by area museums and contributed by teachers, members of the Cleveland High School Black Student Union have assembled an African American Art Expo that classmates will view on Thursday. The multimedia exhibit honors Black History Month by blending prerecorded African folk music and videotapes of the American civil-rights movement with paintings, sculptures, drawings and artifacts chronicling the journey from Africa to America.

A Los Angeles Unified School District policeman was praised as a hero Friday for preventing a gang fight and shooting outside Cleveland High School from injuring more people. The school principal and the chief of the LAUSD police force said that 27-year-old Shane Stewart helped break up the brawl outside the school on Thursday without firing his own weapon, probably saving others from injury. "He took everything into consideration in a split second," said Cleveland High Principal Al Weiner.

A gang brawl erupted into gunfire Thursday afternoon outside Cleveland High School, leaving two 11th-graders injured in the street in front of students whose classes had ended just 15 minutes earlier. One student was shot in the pelvis and the forearm, Los Angeles Unified School District officials said. The other was beaten in the head with a blunt object, possibly a pistol butt, said Det. Dave Szabo of the Los Angeles Police Department's West Valley homicide bureau.