Posts Tagged ‘Richmond High School’
The long game: Tutoring program helps Richmond players prepare for life after football
Using a tough-love approach, the team’s football coach and hard-boiled tutor insist players have a plan for their studies and their future.
Read MoreRichmond police commissioner may call for surveys of high school students on relations with police
The Richmond Police Department is interested in having all high school students in the city take an anonymous survey in which they could express their thoughts and feelings about local police.
Read MoreLittle Leaders: Group provides after-school safe space for youth of color
Tucked away in the back corner of Richmond’s Community Health for Asian Americans (CHAA) center sits a hand-painted poster that reads “SEAYL IS IN.”
Read MoreTo walk in their shoes: immigration attorney Veronica Granillo knows the trials of the undocumented
The law degree that hangs in a frame on the bright yellow wall in Veronica Granillo’s office tells a story. To her clients, many of whom come to this office on the second floor of the Market Square Mall in Richmond’s Iron Triangle seeking advice on how to gain U.S. citizenship, perhaps it tells them that she is official, and she has the piece of paper to prove it.
Read MoreNational Hispanic Heritage Month celebrated at school board meeting
Dancers and musicians from local middle and high schools spiced up Wednesday’s WCCUSD school board meeting. The students’ performances were in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Read MoreArt event to showcase teen photography, give insight into growing up in Richmond
More than 100 portraits of Richmond teenagers and the stories they shared with 19 young photojournalists will be on display at the Richmond Art Center from Jan. 11 to March 7 as part of “Unlock the Talk: The American Teenager Project in Richmond.”
Read MoreLinked Learning enhances curriculum at Richmond High
The California Department of Education included Richmond schools in a new pilot program to enhance learning skills in a wide range of fields, such as engineering, arts and media, and biomedical and health sciences.
Read MoreRichmond High’s Benjamin Gannon trades in the megaphone for shoulder pads
What did Benjamin Gannon, the senior offensive and defensive lineman do, exactly? He joined the cheerleading squad.
Read MoreRichmond High’s Sean Trimmer earning his merit badge on the gridiron
Sean Trimmer, a 17-year-old senior on the Richmond High School football team brings a unique set of skills to the gridiron.
Read MoreUC Berkeley Chancellor visits Richmond High
“There’s a place for you at U.C.,” Chancellor Dirks told the students. “You have to work to get there, but it’s yours.”
Read MoreRichmond High fields all-girl tennis team
After operating for three years as a co-ed tennis team with boys and girls competing against all-boy teams, there were enough players this year to form an all-girl tennis squad at Richmond High School.
Read MoreRichmond High football attracts talent from unlikely places
Richmond High Football experiences highest involvement in decades thanks largely to a new interest from Latino community.
Read MoreKennedy High art teacher finalist for The Ed Fund
Dozens of palm-sized faces hang from the ceiling in Steve Mainini’s art classroom at Kennedy High School. The ceramic reflections of former students dangle in wire cages and defy gravity as if trapped in some sort of bad dream. But for the hundreds of students that have enrolled in Mainini’s art classes the past eight…
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