Schools Seek State Waiver to Reopen
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Los Feliz Ledger Read by 100,000+ Residents and Business Owners in Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Vol 16. No. 2 August 2020 Atwater Village, Echo Park & Hollywood Hills Slain Trader Schools Seek Joe’s Manager State Waiver Honored with To Reopen Police Protest By Allison B. Cohen By Erin Hickey Pinheiro Ledger Contributing Writer A handful of local private elementary schools are consid- SILVER LAKE—Hundreds ering applying for a “waiver” of demonstrators marched to reopen for on-campus in- the roughly two miles from struction, according to school the Los Angeles Police Dept. representatives. (LAPD)’s Northeast Division As the Ledger went to to the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s press, those schools were: Pil- July 19th in honor of Melyda grim School, Holy Trinity in “Mely” Corado and in protest Atwater Village and Ribet of police brutality. Academy in Glassell Park. Corado, a 27-year-old California Gov. Gavin Trader Joe’s manager, was Newsom on July 17th ordered killed by a stray police bul- all Los Angeles County schools let two years ago, on July 21, to remain closed for the start of 2018, during a hostage situa- the upcoming school year, as the tion at the store. county and nearly three dozen The police officers who others in the state saw dramatic shot Corado were aiming for spikes in COVID-19 cases and Gene Evin Atkins, 29, who is hospitalizations in July. Those facing more than 50 criminal Atwater Village parent Lori Rosales has enriched her sons’ LAUSD remote learning by creating her own lesson plans. (See counties, including Los Ange- counts, including murder for her editorial below right.) She’s started an Instagram page to share her and her three sons’ journey. Photos: 1st row: Making les, are now on the state’s so- recycled postcards; reading for the older ones, chess for the little one; cooking and math using a ½ cup, when only a ¼ cup called “Monitoring List.” initiating the events that led to was needed; 2nd row: “Willy Wonka Math,” counting by 5 cents; country research; kitchen covered in teaching posters and see TRADER JOE’S page 15 the little one revisits one on his own time; 3rd row: recognizing numbers playing Bingo; writing lesson; reading on “Sports see WAIVER page 12 Day.” Photos: @robrohomeschool Instagram. REMOTE LEARNING TO RESUME Lax Enforce- [EDITORIAL] [EDITORIAL] ment Makes Not Reopening UTLA FUNDING REQUESTS Parents: You Berendo St. Schools is Best FOR RE-OPENING SCHOOLS Can Do It, But “A Living Hell” By Nicolle Fefferman FEDERAL SUPPORT It’s Hard By Sorina Szakacs, Marshall High School • Federal bailout funds, especially for students with By Lori Rosales Ledger Contributing Writer Teacher disabilities • Fully funding Title I “Mom, how does…, Why LOS FELIZ—A group of about On March 13th, when • Fully funding IDEA (Individuals With Disabilities Education) does …, Will it…,” comes two dozen Berendo Street resi- I left Room 501—the room • Medicare for all out of my children’s mouths dents have asked city officials where I have taught at John 17,549 times a day. That num- to declare a “local emergen- Marshall High School for STATE SUPPORT ber may be a bit low on aver- cy” in response to a growing the past six years—I knew • Passage of Nov. 2020 Ballot Prop. 15 (tax on age. The once dreaded “Hey commercial and industrial properties) homeless encampment they we would not be back in two Mom, Look!” has been re- say has turned their street into weeks. • Wealth tax (1% annually on unrealized capital gains of billionaires) placed with the 9,000 ques- a “living hell.” The news out of Asia and • Millionaire tax (adds a 1% surtax on incomes over tions that would have once The encampment sprang Europe, along with the science $1 million annually and 3% over $3 million annually) been posed to a teacher but up next to the now-vacant explained by Mabel Wong, a now are coming at me. But LOCAL SUPPORT site of the Steve Allen Theater, wonderful science teacher at our unlike for the teacher, these which was torn down in 2017 school, led me to believe that we • Defund police • Housing security inquiries, start at 6 a.m. and to make way for a condo devel- would be gone for longer. • Ten additional sick days for every worker in the city don’t taper off until about 8 opment. But construction on What I could not imag- • Charter moratorium p.m. I love 8 p.m. that project never began and ine, though, is that we would • Financial support for undocumented students and Yet I know I am the lucky what was once a sprinkling of families end our year or start this one, because with a back- tents, has now “morphed into upcoming school year over Read the UTLA’s paper, published in July 2020, at utla.net ground as an educator I have a colony of violent transients,” see TEACHER page 14 see PARENT page 14 see BERENDO page 3 COMMUNITY NEWS: Los Feliz POLITICS: Dealing with the EDD SCHOOL NEWS: THEATER: Skylight brings the show CORONAVIRUS: homeless facility opens, raising is a full-time job for Assembly- Los Feliz MOMS Club disbands, online, with pandemic-inspired Find daily COVID-19 coverage enforcement questions, page 3 member Laura Friedman, page 11 forms new organization, page 12 plays, losfelizledger.com online at losfelizledger.com Los Feliz Ledger Ryu Seeks to Make “Slow Streets” they are now is a great thing,” wrote Kingswell resident Les- Permanent Post COVID-19 lie Sloan. “… I appreciate the By Erin Hickey Pinheiro, Ledger Contributing Writer idea of trying to slow down FOUNDED 2005 cars as they often zoom very Delivered the last Thursday of each month to 34,500 homes and LOS FELIZ—The Los Fe- liz. Temporary “road closed” fast down my street, but I do businesses in the Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Atwater Village, Echo Park and Hollywood Hills communities. liz Neighborhood Council signs popped up on a handful not believe wide obstructions (LFNC) will vote August of residential streets—including in the road that impede turn- 1933 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027 | (323) 741-0019 18th on whether to support a Rodney Drive and Finley, Mel- ing is the right solution.” PUBLISHER/EDITOR motion by Los Angeles City bourne and Ambrose avenues— Multiple residents said they Allison B. Cohen Councilmember David Ryu to in mid-July, leading some resi- were concerned the program SENIOR EDITOR make a recent “Slow Streets” dents to say the idea of making would worsen traffic congestion Erin Hickey Pinheiro program permanent. them permanent is premature. on Franklin Avenue and other GRAPHIC DESIGN & LAYOUT The program, implemented Many residents wrote or local thoroughfares. Tiffany Sims to allow for easier social distanc- called in their support for the One Rodney Drive resi- ing during the coronavirus pan- initiative at a recent LFNC dent, Steve Gifford, said the For more stories and updates: demic, closes select residential meeting, saying the road clo- see STREETS page 14 LosFelizLedger.com streets to non-local automobile sure signs had reduced speed- traffic to allow for recreational ing on residential streets and and pedestrian street use. made the area safer. “Local traffic—includ- “We are truly apprecia- ing access by delivery vehicles tive of and support the slower and emergency vehicles—and streets program!” wrote Los local parking are still allowed Feliz resident Marisa Policas- on Slow Streets, however, non- tro. “Permanent signs would residential cut-through traffic be wonderful. We live [on] is prohibited,” Ryu’s June 24th Finley between Common- motion reads. “Community wealth and Hillhurst and it feedback on Slow Streets is be- has always been scary to cross ing received by [The Los An- the street with my children.” geles Dept. of Transportation], Some said they worried and the response from a wide the signs created a “false sense range of residents and groups of security,” since they do not in participating neighbor- actually prevent non-local traf- hoods has been overwhelm- fic from entering streets or force ingly positive.” cars to slow down, while others While some Los Angeles said they liked the idea, but not neighborhoods implemented the implementation. the program as early as May, “I like the idea in con- slow streets are new to Los Fe- cept, but I don’t think the way Together, Let’s Save Save Energy. Save Water. Repeat. 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