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Januar y 10, 2019
Gar y Fer rer opens new dance studio, offers folklórico, Zumba classes By Maryjoy Duncan
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ary Ferrer debuted his new dance studio located on Highland Ave. on Wednesday, Jan. 2 with a folklórico class and consequent Zumba class.
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Evicted from the St. John’s Episcopal Church multi-use room where Gary offered free folklórico and Zumba classes (free child care included) to the community daily for over a year, Gary and husband Ivan Resendez quickly found a new spot. The $1,400 monthly rent puts a financial strain on the couple, but they are optimistically hopeful about the future.
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Displaced from St. John’s Episcopal Church where he offered free daily Zumba and folklórico classes to the community, Gary Ferrer opened his new dance studio on Highland Ave., and is charging $30 per month for unlimited Zumba classes and twice weekly folklórico classes. Pictured is Gary with his inaugural class at the new site last Wednesday, Jan. 2.
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state tool that helps the public assess how schools are doing on measures like test scores, chronic absenteeism, and graduation rates shows San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD) students are making encouraging progress.
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“I know in the end this will work out,” Ivan said. “I have a taco cart, I’ll sell tacos - I’ll do whatever I have to do.” Gary, cont. on next pg.
CA School Dashboard shows SB City Schools making steady gains Community News
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Results from the revamped California School Dashboard released Thursday show 91.8 percent of District students in the Class of 2018 received a high school diploma, earning the District one of the best ratings. The Dashboard, California’s new public school accountability system, also shows District students made incremental growth in English language arts and math tests. The six state performance indicators reported in December’s Dashboard include: College and Career Readiness; Chronic Absenteeism; Suspension Rates; English Learner Progress; Graduation Rates; and state test scores in English language arts and mathematics for grades 3–8
and 11. The California Department of Education’s Dashboard rates schools’ performance on an indicator using five colors. Red is the lowest achievement level, followed by orange, yellow, green, and blue, the highest level. A school is considered to have a favorable mark if it receives green or blue on an indicator.
A key element of California's comprehensive accountability and continuous improvement system for K–12 schools is that the Dashboard helps identify schools and districts facing challenges in specific indicators. For SBCUSD and hundreds of others around the region and state, those challenges include chronic absenteeism, defined as the percentage of students who are absent 10 percent or more of instructional days. Another area of improvement identified statewide is College and Career readiness, meaning more must be done to ensure that graduates are prepared to succeed when they leave high school. SBCUSD is well on its way to Gains, cont. on next pg.