West Covina Ca Schools

In a victory for the West Covina teachers union, a judge has ruled that the school board violated teachers' 1st Amendment rights by ordering a workshop on dealing with gay and lesbian students to be moved off campus and now must host such an event. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph R.

The homes and truck of a West Covina school board member were searched by Los Angeles County district attorney's investigators as part of a probe into whether he lives out of town in violation of state residency rules for public officials. Peter Sabatino Jr., 48, on Monday denied that he lives at the Downey house he bought in 1996.

The homes and truck of a West Covina school board member were searched by Los Angeles County district attorney's investigators as part of a probe into whether he lives out of town in violation of state residency rules for public officials. Peter Sabatino Jr., 48, on Monday denied that he lives at the Downey house he bought in 1996.

For Samar Aziz, the road to providing her sons with an Islamic-based education is 76 miles long and full of gridlock. "It's a killer," she said of the drive between her Tustin home and the private Islamic school in West Covina where her boys, ages 4 and 5, are taught not only to read and write--but also what it means to be a Muslim. "It's hard. It takes a toll on the family." Aziz has prayed for relief, and on Saturday, in a field of dirt and rocks in Irvine, her prayers were answered.

Athletic fields at Rincon Intermediate School in West Covina will reopen next week after officials determined that the mysterious substance that sent 89 students to hospitals on Monday is no longer a threat, a school spokeswoman said. "We think the best thing for the kids is to put them back into their routine," said Diane Ho, spokeswoman for the Rowland Unified School District.

Water, food and bugs were not to blame for a mysterious outbreak that sent 91 West Covina students to area hospitals, officials said Tuesday. Ninety of the students from Rincon Junior High School were back in school Tuesday, a day after they were treated for rashes, swollen eyes, blisters, stomach cramps or breathing difficulties following physical education classes, said Diane Ho, a spokeswoman for the Rowland Unified School District.

Deluged by phone calls and offers of help from people concerned that West Covina children may be going to school hungry, the city's school board Tuesday got an earful from parents at a public meeting.

West Covina Unified School District officials reopened Hollencrest Middle School after eight years today but it cost them almost $2 million to replace truckloads of missing supplies. The school was virtually stripped bare after some enterprising district maintenance supervisors in the late 1980s, believing the school would never reopen, unofficially cannibalized everything from toilet-stall doors to chalkboards for other sites, said Supt. John Costello.

The West Covina school system may become the first district in Los Angeles County to let the Edison Project, a private, commercial company, administer some of its campuses. The Edison venture, headed by a former media magnate and a past president of Yale University, has drawn enthusiasm from school board members and the superintendent of the 8,700-student district. A final decision is months away.

It was simple fare at Edgewood Middle School's first free breakfast Wednesday morning: a bowl of Cheerios, a carton of milk and another carton of orange juice. The breakfast was organized by West Covina residents after the problem of hunger among children at the school, detailed in a Times story Sunday, sparked a nationwide outpouring of generosity.

The West Covina school board has settled a teacher's lawsuit accusing a board member of leaning on school administrators to change two grades for his son. The settlement reinstates the C and the citizenship grade of U (unsatisfactory) given by the Edgewood Middle School teacher to board member George Fuller's son. Those grades, for a computer course, had been upgraded to B and N (needs improvement).

The West Covina school system may become the first district in Los Angeles County to let the Edison Project, a private, commercial company, administer some of its campuses. The Edison venture, headed by a former media magnate and a past president of Yale University, has drawn enthusiasm from school board members and the superintendent of the 8,700-student district. A final decision is months away.

In a victory for the West Covina teachers union, a judge has ruled that the school board violated teachers' 1st Amendment rights by ordering a workshop on dealing with gay and lesbian students to be moved off campus and now must host such an event. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph R.

West Covina Unified School District officials reopened Hollencrest Middle School after eight years today but it cost them almost $2 million to replace truckloads of missing supplies. The school was virtually stripped bare after some enterprising district maintenance supervisors in the late 1980s, believing the school would never reopen, unofficially cannibalized everything from toilet-stall doors to chalkboards for other sites, said Supt. John Costello.

It was simple fare at Edgewood Middle School's first free breakfast Wednesday morning: a bowl of Cheerios, a carton of milk and another carton of orange juice. The breakfast was organized by West Covina residents after the problem of hunger among children at the school, detailed in a Times story Sunday, sparked a nationwide outpouring of generosity.

Deluged by phone calls and offers of help from people concerned that West Covina children may be going to school hungry, the city's school board Tuesday got an earful from parents at a public meeting.

The West Covina school board has settled a teacher's lawsuit accusing a board member of leaning on school administrators to change two grades for his son. The settlement reinstates the C and the citizenship grade of U (unsatisfactory) given by the Edgewood Middle School teacher to board member George Fuller's son. Those grades, for a computer course, had been upgraded to B and N (needs improvement).

West Covina's Edgewood Middle School, profiled in a Times story Sunday as an example of a school that does not serve federally funded breakfasts to low-income students, was deluged by more than 250 phone calls Monday as people from as far away as Santa Barbara offered to donate their time and money to ensure that Edgewood students don't go to school hungry.

West Covina's Edgewood Middle School, profiled in a Times story Sunday as an example of a school that does not serve federally funded breakfasts to low-income students, was deluged by more than 250 phone calls Monday as people from as far away as Santa Barbara offered to donate their time and money to ensure that Edgewood students don't go to school hungry.

Athletic fields at Rincon Intermediate School in West Covina will reopen next week after officials determined that the mysterious substance that sent 89 students to hospitals on Monday is no longer a threat, a school spokeswoman said. "We think the best thing for the kids is to put them back into their routine," said Diane Ho, spokeswoman for the Rowland Unified School District.