School Board Considers Lowering Graduation Requirements
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Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 Vol. 19 No. 43 OBITUARIES FEATURES PAGING DR. FRISCHER HEALTH Mourning local Meet DUSD’s Returning to Healthcare worker residents Jose Rodriguez ‘normalcy’ spotlight SEE PAGE 4 SEE PAGE 2 SEE PAGE 3 SEE PAGE 3 Shutdown School board considers eases starting lowering graduation Friday 56˚ Friday requirements Saturday 61˚ ■ Restaurants can resume outdoor dining, and nail/ some students are having some Sunday 68˚ hair salons can reopen with difficulties because they need limited capacity. LA County grades.” will follow state’s guidance. Under the new requirements, students would no longer meet eligibility for the UC and CSU ON THIS DAY systems, and would therefore JANUARY 28 need to attend community By Eric Pierce 1813: Editor college to complete transfer requirements. The novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen was first published At Downey and Warren High anonymously in London. DOWNEY – Restaurants Schools, the percentage of D can begin serving customers and F grades given in the first outdoors again starting Friday as semester have increased from 1896: the state moved this week to ease 17.67% and 13.31% to 25.76% and England’s Walter Arnold becomes the its stay-at-home orders. 24.12% respectively, compared to first person cited for speeding in an Other industries can also last year. automobile. He was fined 1 shilling for speeding at 8 MPH, exceeding the 2 reopen with restrictions, In contrast, Columbus High MPH speed limit. including: School decreased from 30.62% to nail and hair salons at 25% 18.84%, which Harris attributed capacity to its number of students and 1909: indoor malls and shopping ability for more one on one The United States leaves Cuba with the centers at 25% capacity (food guidance, as well as “a number exception of Guantanamo Bay after courts must remain closed) of unique interventions they can being there since the Spanish-American War. miniature golf courses and apply.” batting cages at 50% capacity Should the board decide museums, zoos and against adjusting the graduation 1915: aquariums at 50% capacity requirements, many students The Coast Guard was created by an act may need to transfer to the of Congress. cardrooms at 50% capacity As students struggle their diploma. The District’s necessarily be earmarked for an ■ continuation school. Fitness centers can open with distance learning, requirements are made up elective, as counselors could then “If [changing the unit 1916: with outdoor operations, and all through a combination of state work with a student’s individual the Downey school board requirement] isn’t something hotels can open for tourism and demands and UC / CSU system schedule to address other needs. Louis D. Brandeis was appointed by could reduce the number we’re interested in, we’ll probably individual travel. “A-G” qualifications. Students would still be held President Woodrow Wilson to the of credits required to need to move a lot of kids to Supreme Court, becoming its first Outdoor private gatherings Of course, the onset of to normal grading standards, as graduate. Columbus because they have this Jewish member. are allowed for up to three the Coronavirus significantly universities have not suggested shook-up matters for last that they would continue to reduced graduation rate,” said households and a total of 15 Assistant Superintendent Roger 1938: people. year’s class of 2020. As such, consider the pass / no pass By Alex Dominguez several adjustments were made grading as they had for last year’s Brossmer. Germany’s Rudolf Caracciola breaks Non-essential businesses Staff Writer including reducing the required spring and summer sessions. “That would be very the world’s land speed record, reaching must remain closed from 10 pm credits to 190 and offering a pass/ disruptive, but in the best 268.9 MPH in a Mercedes-Benz. to 5 am. “That grading variant is not no pass option for grading. part of that recommendation,” interest of those students, Health officials warned the DOWNEY – In response At their meeting on Tuesday, said John Harris, Director of that’d be something we’d have 1958: public not to get too comfortable. to look at and we’d have to to many of the struggles that the board considered a proposal College and Career Readiness. Lego patents the design of its Lego increase staffing significantly to “While our metrics are students are still facing in wake that would extend the 190-credit “The university system has not bricks, still compatible with bricks headed in the right direction, of the Covid-19 pandemic, requirement through the 2020- adopted the same policy.” accommodate that.” produced today. if we aren’t careful this can all Downey Unified School District 21 school year. “We try to align ourselves The Board will revisit and quickly change,” said LA County is considering dropping the There is also a slight change with what higher education potentially decide on this issue at health director Barbara Ferrer. 1959: number of required credits for to course requirements, with is doing so we don’t place their next meeting, scheduled for Vince Lombardi was named head coach “In order to prevent another graduation by 30. the district only requiring three our students in any kind of Feb 10. of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers. increase in cases that leads us Currently, DUSD requires years of English as opposed to odd positions. Some districts back to more restrictions, as 220 units for students to earn four. The new opening would not continued the pass / no pass, and sectors re-open, we strongly 1973: encourage everyone to follow A cease-fire officially went into effect in the protocols that are in place the Vietnam War. and to keep doing what we know will help reduce transmissions 1999: –wear a face covering, maintain Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, honoring physical distance, avoid large Construction begins on a personal request for mercy from Pope gatherings and crowds. John Paul II, spared a triple murderer “If you are at high risk for from execution. serious disease from COVID-19, we strongly recommend you Rives Mansion coffee shop 2009: continue to stay home as much In a swift victory for President Barack as possible.” Obama, the Democratic-controlled LA County Supervisor Janice ■ Owners of the historic House approved a $819 billion stimulus Hahn said she supports allowing property received approval bill. restaurants to resume outdoor dining service. to build a 1,200 sq. ft. coffee shop in the “Now that Governor Newsom Birthdays mansion’s front yard. has lifted the statewide stay-at- Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim (81), home order, the question is what basketball coach Gregg Popovich is L.A. County going to do?,” (72), pastor and author Rick Warren Hahn said. By Alex Dominguez (67), rapper Rakim (53), U.S. Supreme “We should align ourselves Staff Writer Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett with the state as much as (49), former Lakers forward Mark possible which means, among Madsen (45), rapper Rick Ross (45), other things, reopening outdoor NSYNC member Joey Fatone (44), WWE DOWNEY – The sight of wrestler Sheamus (43), Backstreet dining with commonsense earth-moving equipment and health protocols in place as soon Boys member Nick Carter (41), “Lord construction fences around of the Rings” actor (40), as possible. Elijah Wood Downey’s historic Rives Mansion rapper J Cole (36) and “Modern Family” “The restaurant industry has signaled that work has begun actress Ariel Winter (23). was devastated by this lengthy on a controversial coffee shop shutdown and I know this would approved in 2019. be welcome news to them.” Officials with the city’s Planning Department confirmed Deaths Downey Statistics that work on a 1,200 square foot Space shuttle Challenger exploded As of Wednesday, Covid-19 coffee and juice bar structure has 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape has killed 183 Downey residents begun on the property. Canaveral, killing all seven crew and infected 15,745. While nothing is certain members: Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair, Ellison Hospital trends, however, due to the unpredictability of how Covid-19 will affect Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Dick Scobee show progress. On Wednesday, and Michael J. Smith. 81 people were hospitalized at project progress, Community A coffee shop is being construction in the front yard of the Rives Mansion. (Photo by Alex PIH Health Hospital Downey Development Director Aldo Dominguez) with Covid-19, down from 134 on Schindler estimated that work Jan. 20. could be finished within 18 The coffee shop – which for the coffee shop in 2019. Rives, a newspaper publisher and months. will sit slightly offset to the superior court judge. Across L.A. County, there The long worse-for-wear mansion’s iconic face – was seen are 6,213 people currently Construction of the coffee / mansion was listed for sale as of His wife was Mary Lee Rives, as a way for owners Arturo Concha hospitalized with the virus, juice bar is by and large a catch last January, however managed a leading social figure who and Erika De La Teja to offset the down from a peak of 8,065 22 for the city, who said they to stay out of its now somewhat established the Friday Afternoon costs of the property’s purchase hospitalizations on Jan. 6. wished to see the property notorious spotlight for the rest Club, which would become the restored to its former glory yet and subsequent restoration. of 2020. Woman’s Club of Downey. has clearly stated that it is not in Downey planning Built in 1911, the mansion Eric Pierce contributed to this report the financial position to do so. commissioners approved plans is the former home of James 2 | The Downey Patriot Thursday, Jan.