LAWNDALE, Calif - Hundreds of Lawndale High School students walked out of class to protest a decision to involuntarily transfer 50 of their top teachers (who were notified of the transferral by the principal, during the middle of class) to Leuzinger High School, one of the lowest performing schools in the state. According to Academic Performance Index (API) scores—the state’s measuring tool of student achievement—Leuzinger is in the bottom 10 percent of public high schools in the state.

Two generations of the Owens family have matriculated through the halls of Dorsey High School, and last Saturday much of clan was back at the “D-House” to give back through the one-day Christopher Owens Youth Football Camp. Nearly half of the 20 to 25 volunteers who helped put on the camp for the varsity and junior varsity Dorsey football team were family members.