The Lawndale High School football team had an exceptionally successful season, ending it as the CIF State Division 2A Champions. Additionally, they won the CIF Southern Section Division 5 Championship and the CIF State Southern Regional Division 2A Championship. They have been named Top 50 in the nation by MaxPreps, out of 17,000 teams nationwide. The team is being honored by MaxPreps in partnership with the National Guard at an upcoming Tour of Champions event, where they will be recognized and presented with a trophy. When: Friday, February 8, 2019 at 2:00pm (seating begins at 1:30pm) Where: Lawndale High School Football Field (14901 S. Inglewood Ave, Lawndale, CA 90260)

The district is now in year 2 of the Digital Learning Initiative (DLI). This year all 9th and 10th graders at the comprehensive schools, and all students at Lloyde and CVISS have a take-home Chromebook; we have deployed over 3,200 student Chromebooks! We are continuing our partnership with the Sprint 1Million Project to provide free high-speed Internet hot spots to students who don’t have Internet at home. Currently, we have 548 hotspots available through this program. The district has deployed GoGuardian software to better monitor, filter, and control student Internet access on the Chromebook, and also to allow teachers greater monitoring and control over student computers when in class. Our professional development program is growing to help teachers effectively utilize 1:1 Chromebooks to improve student engagement and to provide a greater variety of learning opportunities through a blended learning instructional approach. The voter-approved local parcel tax funded the initiative, so there was no impact on the general fund, and it will save the district money in the long-run by phasing out textbooks.

This year, CVUHSD hosted its first annual "Get to Know Us" tour at Hawthorne, Lawndale and Leuzinger High Schools. We invited principals, assistant principals, teachers, counselors and district administrators from our partner districts to attend and the turnout was great! Guests enjoyed a continental breakfast prepared by our Culinary Careers Academy students, followed by a tour at each high school, highlighting the best programs and extracurricular opportunities that each school has to offer, and concluding with lunch. We value our partner districts and look forward to continuing to nurture our partnerships to ensure that our students leave high school ready for college, career...and life!

Tuesday, September 18th marked our 3rd Annual Community Partner Breakfast, in partnership with the South Bay Workforce Investment Board. This year's breakfast proved to be a huge success with over 100 business representatives in attendance! Attendees watched a presentation on how businesses can connect with our career academies and career technical education pathways, a panel discussion including current business partners, and the Platinum Partner Awards. The attendees then had 40 minutes to interact directly with our academy students during the Academy Table Talk time. We are excited to watch these new partnerships develop this year!

Lawndale HS students participated in UCLA Volunteer Day, a large community participation event for students that covers a wide range of community service projects across Los Angeles. A group of Bruins went to Lawndale HS Saturday School and encouraged students to attend college. Next, they went to Lloyde HS and helped complete a fence project for campus improvement. The event proved to be a great example of #theCVway, putting #StudentsFirst and improving campus safety, keeping it clean, being kind and learning something new. A big thank you to UCLA Bruins Give Back and to the CV students and staff who participated in UCLA Volunteer Day.