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In Memory Of Professor Manuel Castillejos
On Monday, June 30, 2025, at 3:00 PM, Parking Lot 13 will be officially renamed in memory of Professor Manuel Castillejos — a cherished community leader and passionate arts advocate.
Join us as we unveil a memorial plaque in his honor and celebrate his lasting impact.
June 30 at 3pm
VPD Lot 13 (2nd Street and S. Garey Avenue)Questions? Please contact Pomona Public Works (909) 620-2261 
College for All
College for All meeting with legislators in Sacramento on key education bills affecting our communities, schools, and colleges.
Celebrating with the Segovia Family
Celebrating with the Segovia family – the graduation of their daughter, Alyssa Segovia, and her friend Grecia Acevedo (with the Acevedo Family) – earning M. S. Degrees from the University of Oregon. Oscar Segovia, who is on the Latino and Latina Roundtable board and Education Committee shared how their many achievements add to the growing number of Latina and Latino students who are now graduating from University graduate programs and paving the way for the kind of change makers that we need in the future.
Raising Funds For Library Programs
Great turn-out for Pomona Library Foundation Mayor’s gala raising funds for library programs with Richard Montoya from Culture Clash as emcee, awardee recipients Estela Ballon and Paul Knopf; Pomona Poet Laureate Natalie Sierra; and LRT board members Lidia Manzanares (President) and Mike Suarez and Lina Mira (Executive Director) in support of the fundraiser.
Retirement of PUSD Teacher Ion Puschila
Retirement of PUSD teacher Ion Puschila met with the attendance of dozens of former and present students, teachers, political leaders, organizers, educators, and community-based friends – all lauding the influence that he had in the development of community schools, the organizing of scholarships for students with the annual Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta breakfast and pilgrimage march, the building of bridges in advancing intersectional unity, the support for immigrant and labor rights, and the unconditional teaching, giving, and mentoring of hundreds of students over the years. All echoed the sentiment: “Ion – thank you for your contributions- we will carry on – but you are truly going to be missed.”
PROTECT ETHNIC STUDIES‼️
URGENT & TIME SENSITIVE – TAKE 1 MINUTE TO PROTECT ETHNIC STUDIESWe are winning—but the fight isn’t over.
Thanks to powerful, intersectional organizing from students, educators, and community members like you, AB 1468 is tentatively being pulled from its hearing. This is a major victory. The bill sought to gut Ethnic Studies and censor conversations about Palestine, colonization, anti-Arab racism, and Islamophobia. Together, we forced its now anticipated withdrawal.
Invitation to Presentation on Community and University-Assisted Schools by Ira Harkavy on Feb. 5 at 6:30 PM
As part of advancing our ongoing partnership between College for All (Latino and Latina Roundtable, NAACP, community schools, and Pomona Unified) you are invited to a virtual presentation on “Community Schools and University-Assisted Schools” on Monday, February 5 at 6:30 pm by Ira Harkavy, the Founding Director of the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania. The webinar zoom link and passcode are below. As Director of the Netter Center since 1992, Harkavy has helped to develop academically based community service courses and community-engaged research projects that involve creating university-community partnerships and university-assisted community schools with Penn’s local community of West Philadelphia. Harkavy teaches in history, urban studies, and Africana studies, as well as in the Graduate School of Education. Harkavy has written and lectured widely on the history and current practice of urban university-community-school partnerships and the democratic and civic missions of higher education. He has co-authored and co-edited twelve books.
As Pomona Unified and other school districts in the region move ahead in developing community schools, this presentation will focus on lessons learned in the implementaion of community and university-asssisted schools and the partnerships that are needed to have positive outcomes.
Translation will be available for the webinar presentation.
You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Feb 5, 2024, 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Latino/a Round Table – Dr. Ira Harkavy: Community Schools and University-Assisted Schools
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://pusd.zoom.us/j/88535736950?pwd=OCttR2dzcTVLdXpQamIzQ1hIZWdLdz09
passcode: 120940
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Passcode: 120940
Jose Zapata Calderon Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies 1050 North Mills Avenue Claremont, CA 91711-6101 (909) 952-1640 Jose_Calderon@pitzer.edu
Community Schools LAEP Job Opportunities
The Latino and Latina Roundtable has been partnering with Pomona Unified since the first establishment of three community schools at the school district. Now, the school district is in the process of developing eight more community schools. Here is the link to the community schools job opportunities at PUSD. Please send out to anyone whom you think would be a good candidate for any of these positions:
Hello,
The following link will take you to the LAEP website with the various Community Schools job opportunities.
Thank you in advance for sharing this.
Respectfully,
Jesse Altamirano Principal On Assignment Pupil & Community Services (909) 397-4800 Ext. 23857 Pomona Unified School District 800 South Garey Avenue Pomona, CA 9176
