W e e k l y RIALTO RECORD
Se ptember 12, 2019
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LULAC volunteers register Rialto area high school students to vote Community News
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ast week, volunteers from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) of the Inland Empire Council 3163 registered and pre-registered about 650 high school seniors to vote. They expect to register over 1,000 students by the end of their annual service project.
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"Civically engaging our community by registering them to vote has been a national service project of LULAC since its inception in 1929," said LULAC voter registration coordinator and Councilmember Rafael Trujillo. "Thousands of young Rialto voters have been involved in Rialto's decision making over the years because of the hard work of our volunteers. Voter registration is crucial to giving them a voice. It’s a good model for other communities in the Inland Empire to follow." LULAC, cont. on next pg.
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Christal Garcia at Eisenhower High School encouraging students to be civically engaged.
27 Rialto Unified School District schools ear n state PBIS honors, including Gold Level
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n unprecedented 27 schools in the Rialto Unified School District will be honored by the California State Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS) coalition. Three RUSD schools (first for the District) earned Gold Level, sixteen RUSD schools earned Silver Level, and eight schools earned Bronze Level. Representatives
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from the District will officially be honored at the end of October in Sacramento.
addressing the symptom (e.g. poor behavior) with punitive measures.
The PBIS frameworksupports schools to address the social, emotional and behavioral needs of students using multi-tiered supports before misbehaviors manifests. The framework is designed for adults to develop their skills to better addressthe sources of the issues affecting students in a positive and constructive way, rather than
“I know how hard Mrs. Melissa Rubio, PBIS Coordinator, and our school site PBIS Teams have worked, over the years, to continue to press forward with ongoing efforts to improve the implementation process,” said Angela Brantley, who oversees PBIS as part of her responsibility as the Lead Agent for Student Support Services.
RUSD Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Cuauhtémoc Avila, credits the RUSD Board of Education for initiating the transformation that PBIS has engendered in the District, by allowing staff to explore positive and effective ways to address the “whole child.” Dr. Avila clearly stated, “It takes the effort of everyone involved in Honors, cont. on next pg.