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April 28 - May 4, 2022 VOL. 37, No. 17
IUSD Justified in Closing Warren Lane
(Kenneth Miller/Photo) By Kenneth Miller, Publisher
The grass peeps through cracks on the asphalt of Warren Lane Elementary School built in 1947, formally known as Daniel Freeman, as a group of concerned parents and community members planned protest is gathering steam outside on a blistering April day. Inside the antiquated school staff
in the front office candidly answer questions that has been swirling since Inglewood Unified School District voted to close it on Jan. 24 via Zoom. Warren Lane is located in a middle class neighborhood which consist of modern homes outfitted with manicured grass lawns, occupied by aging homeowners. Except for the few whose children
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are quickly approaching the age where they could enroll them in the kindergarten-6 Grade school. These are the proud but few parents who are exhausting their efforts to keep Warren Lane open. Those efforts have been rendered mute for four months now, but it has not prevented them from voicing their displeasure with the choice to shut it down. To them it doesn’t appear to matter that Warren Lane test scores rank in the bottom 50% of all schools in California according to a study conducted in 2018-19.
Officer at Community Health Councils, Holly J. Mitchell, Los Angeles County Supervisor 2nd District, David Haake, M.D., Chair of Clean Break Team, Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club, and Kaela Thomas from Black Women for Nurses at Centinela Hospital Medical Wellness. The discussion was sponsored Center plan to hold an informational by the Sierra Club and NRDC. picket at the Inglewood facility on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 claiming Photos by Donna Dymally. they are understaffed, overworked and
Located in the East region of IUSD, the school was priority No. 1 to be shuttered because of its shrining population, down to 143 students from its capacity of 540 at its peak. Since 2013 enrollment at all IUSD schools have been in steep decline from 12,119 to a projected 6,781 by the year 2024. So well before the COVID-19 pandemic the enrollment has been at crisis levels, so much so that keeping predominantly Black school open with Continued on page 8
struggling to provide adequate patient care. Nurses are seen here holding a similar protest in August 2021. (Photo courtesy of the California Nurses Association)
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