Posts Tagged ‘Kennedy High School’
Kennedy gets the all-clear for students to return to campus next week
Kennedy High School will reopen for students on Tuesday, allowing school to start on schedule and on campus, two weeks after the site was closed because of toxic vapors. The Kennedy High community has been living with uncertainty since July 31, when tests confirmed the presence of tetrachloroethylene, also known as PCE, in soil vapors…
Read MoreKennedy High School students may start the school year in another location because of toxic chemical plume
Kennedy High School students will begin their school year on schedule, with several backup locations under consideration while further testing for a toxic chemical on campus is conducted. Richmond’s Kennedy High School was closed on Monday after preliminary test results indicated levels of tetrachloroethylene, also known as PCE, underground. At a town hall meeting Thursday…
Read MoreUpdate: Kennedy High students may start school year in temporary location after toxic chemical was found on campus
West Contra Costa Unified School District is considering temporarily relocating Kennedy High School students after closing the campus Monday because a toxic chemical was detected in “underground vapors,” Superintendent Cheryl Cotton said Tuesday. School is on summer break and set to restart on Aug. 18. WCCUS will hold a town hall meeting with Richmond and…
Read More‘We’re not learning anything’: Kennedy High students frustrated with software that subs for a Spanish teacher
For students at John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond, a teacherless classroom is nothing new. Many kids start their day in the library, huddled over a calendar that shows teacher absences for the day. Teacher vacancies impact various subjects, but Spanish classes have been particularly difficult to fill. In response, the school has turned…
Read MoreNonprofit seeks to give “New Life” to Richmond’s Southside
Three volunteers slosh through John F. Kennedy Park in Richmond as they do each school day. The sounds of hail hitting the thin tin roof of the pavilion almost drown out the soft, squeaking sound of the trash pickers pinching packages of blunt wraps and flattened cans of beer. The brief, but heavy, downpour adds…
Read MoreEaster Hill United Methodist Church in Richmond
The sidewalk in front of Easter Hill United Methodist Church in Richmond was all but empty on Monday at 11 am. A cyclist slowly meandered by on Cutting Boulevard, the clinking of his bike chain breaking up the white noise created by a constant stream of passing cars. The doors of the church were locked,…
Read MoreTales of Two Cities Podcast: Play & Self-Care
This episode of “Tale of Two Cities” explores the topics of play and self-care.
Read MoreFamily remembers Xavier McClanahan
The first thing Xavier McClanahan’s family says is that everyone loved him. As they gathered in a meeting room at the Praise Fellowship Bible Church in Richmond after Sunday services, his mother Ligé spoke of his magnetic personality—people just wanted to be around him. His cousin Daniel, wearing an “R.I.P Xavier” t-shirt, said that he…
Read MoreTeenager shot and killed near middle school
A 14-year-old lost his life in a shooting this morning on the 3300 block of Ohio Avenue, Richmond police said. Despite efforts to stabilize him, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Read MoreRecent shooting prompts extra security at next Kennedy High football game
Richmond police are adding extra security for Kennedy High School’s football game Friday night after a nearby shooting prompted authorities to stop the team’s last home game on Aug. 28 with four minutes left on the clock.
Read MoreNew health clinic opens for Kennedy High students and South Richmond residents
It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon and the new health clinic at Richmond’s John F. Kennedy High School is open for service. In an impeccably clean waiting area decorated with plants, a round table and a bright area rug, teenagers sit scrolling through their phones as they wait their turns, and Ferris Bueller plays overhead on…
Read MoreEnabled by DACA, Ivy League Connection sends first undocumented student from Richmond to East Coast
Magaly Rodriguez, who came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was an infant, is not a U.S. citizen. To get Rodriguez to Brown University, ILC and university officials had to navigate a web of regulations that inhibit undocumented students. But they were also helped by a key new federal program—DACA.
Read MoreFriends, family mourn Richmond woman killed in Oakland
Things were looking up for Rusamie Ashly Phongphoumy, who had long dreamed of a better life. On the night of Nov. 29, her boyfriend proposed to her. She accepted. The couple made plans for the future. But all that ended the next day, when she was killed in a West Oakland market, allegedly by a…
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