Share: Throughout April 2024, it was announced that 99 Cents Only Stores will be closing across America. With an estimated 390 stores shutting down completely and hundreds of employees being let go in California; this will affect many people, including low-income customers, and college students. “I’m not there anymore, but it saddens me because I know the workers, and they spent decades of their life there even without raises and worked hard every day just for it to shut down,” Ex worker Ulysses Rodriguez stated. …
BLOTTER: Teens take a dive in closed Aquatic Center
Share: Monday, April 8, 2024: 12:05 pm.: A student reported his backpack was stolen from inside a classroom in the CA building while the class was outside viewing the eclipse. 11:40 pm.: The officer contacted a female in the quad. The subject was advised to leave and complied. Tuesday, April 9, 2024: No activities were reported for this date Wednesday, April 10, 2024: 6:08 am.: The officer conducted a pedestrian stop in lot 6. The transient was advised to loiter in the area. 10:33 am.: …
New state program offers system impacted students money for college
Share: A new state pilot program intended to help formerly incarcerated students has debuted at several community colleges in California, to ease their transition and reintegrate education into their lives. The Hire UP program will pay students for time spent in class and doing homework. It is a $30 million state initiative modeled after guaranteed income programs. The program was formerly restricted to those in prison, foster children, and CalWORKs recipients. California Community college systems like Santa Rosa Junior College, Sonoma County Junior College, and …
Final approval awaits for PCC foster youth housing
Share: Pasadena City College is set to open a housing complex for foster youth in Pasadena near the Foothill campus to house PCC students in the foster youth program at the college. In late February PCC met with First Place for Youth to set the final details for the housing complex and added an additional ten to twelve units, up from the initial 6 units. The ten to twelve units won’t immediately be available when the complex opens. There was a lot of back-and-forth between …