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Vol. 14, No. 36
YOUR HOMETOWN WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
September 2, 2016
Local foundation honors fallen by Dawmarie Fehr
Building New Bridges
Correspondent
Discovery Bay resident Kevin Graves is on a mission to help families who have lost a loved one in military service. Inspired by his son, who was killed while serving with the Army in Iraq in 2006, Graves founded Some Gave All, The Joey Graves Foundation, to help other California military families who have experienced a loss, known as gold star families. “I do this because I get my healing by helping other people heal,” Graves said. “I carry on my son’s mission. My see Foundation page 22A
Former police captain hosts forum to help relations between police and public. Page 9A
Blue Devils Take Awards Photo courtesy of Kevin Graves
The 10th-annual Joey Graves Memorial Golf Tournament will be held on Sept. 16, at the Discovery Bay Country Club. The event supports Some Gave All, The Joey Graves Foundation, which aids and supports California gold star families.
Common Core test scores released LUHSD test results vary widely
Blue Devils B Drum Corps marches to first place at championship. Page 4A
On Golden Water Skis
by Ruth Roberts Staff Writer
Scores for the state’s newest student valuation test, the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), have been released – and the results are mixed. The bad news is that less than half of California’s students in grade 11 and grades three through eight met or exceeded the standards in math and English. State scores were at 37 percent and 48 percent respectively. The good news? According to the Contra Costa County Office of Education, overall scores
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for local students are a little higher than last year, up 2 percent in math and 3 percent in English, placing Contra Costa County above the statewide average overall. Based on the new Common Core standards, the computerized test is administered to students in 11,000 schools statewide and gauges whether a student is on track for college after graduation.
“We are excited to see that our students continue to improve on the new CAASPP assessment,” said Contra Costa County Superintendent of Schools, Karen Sakata. “Teachers and administrators in our schools work hard every day to help their students meet and exceed these new standards.” Here in the Liberty
Union High School District (LUHSD), however, the scores for high school students were a little more varied. Heritage High, had 573 students take the math test and 572 take the English test. Their scores were 50 percent for math and 84 percent for English. Liberty High had 565 stusee Scores page 22A
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