There’s a high school inside Fresno’s Manchester Mall that caters to dropouts. Crescent View West is a charter school where kids get a second chance to earn their diploma. All students at the central Fresno school have one thing in common, they are former dropouts. After time away from the classroom and being homeless Alberto […]
Vanessa Alvarez was already struggling in her traditional high school when she learned she was pregnant at just 14 years old. At Learn4Life she was able to bring her son to school and have the flexibility she needed, which helped her to graduate early. She went on to college to earn a multiple subject teaching […]
After entering foster care at 16, Taneil Franklin moved between three different high schools in just one year. And even before that, while living in an unstable situation with her father, she’d transferred a couple times — in all, she’d matriculated in five high schools by the time she reached her senior year. Franklin, now […]
A new program in Fresno says its giving teen parents “HOPE” by letting them bring their children to school. Learn4Life created HOPE, which stands for Helping Our Parenting-teens Excel. The program provides mentorship and support to high school students who are teen parents. Student teen parents take advantage of a classroom designed for study in […]
By Miriam Raftery | July 6, 2019 (East County Magazine) Three nonprofit charter schools operating within the Grossmont Union High School District (GUHSD) have been ordered shut down by a judge, but now a stay issued has been ordered for one year until an appeal can be heard. The schools at risk of closure are […]
EL CAJON, Calif. (KGTV) — Nearly 1,000 students left without answers after three charter schools forced to shut down. In a lawsuit filed by the Grossmont Union High School District in 2015, a judge ruled against the charter schools in Lemon Grove, El Cajon and Lakeside demanding they shut their doors June 28 for good. […]
HOPE Program Coordinator Staci Roth and CEO of The Center for Education Reform, Jeanne Allen, chat about Learn4Life’s life-changing program model in Episode 64 of the Reality Check Podcast! iTunes Podcasts Soundcloud Google Play Stitcher TuneIn Reality Check is a weekly podcast about anything and everything having to do with education. This series of lively, engaging […]
Fabiola Cerritos, 18, found out she was pregnant right when she started high school at 14 years-old. Now, Cerritos is set to be the first one to graduate in her family by 2020. By Gabriela Milian | ABC7 – Wednesday, May 29, 2019 10:34PM PANORAMA CITY, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Fabiola Cerritos, 18, found out she […]
ABC7’s Denise Dador visited our center in Panorama City and talked to some of the teen moms enrolled in our HOPE Program. —- By Denise Dador | ABC7 – Tuesday, May 21, 2019 PANORAMA CITY, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A group of students who studied in a classroom alongside their babies at a Panorama City […]
By ALLISON GATLIN ([email protected]) | Valley Press Staff Writer PALMDALE — The classroom at Learn4Life’s Antelope Valley Learning Academy in Palmdale looks a bit different from those at most other high schools. It may have desks and computers, but it also features a brightly colored play area set off by a low fence, filled with […]