Claremont School News
The number of young children without health insurance rose more sharply than the rate for older children between 2022 and 2024, reaching its highest level in nearly a decade, according to a new analysis from Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families. The uninsured rate for children under age six increased from 4.3% to 5.3% — a 23% increase within two years — leaving nearly 220,000 additional babies, toddlers and preschoolers in the U.S. without any health coverage. The number of uninsured school-age children grew by 17%. Photo/courtesy of pexels.com
Scripps College President Amy Marcus-Newhall will speak about and present plans for the Centennial Plaza Project, an update to the western entrance to the school ahead of its 100th anniversary in a free and public 2 p.m.
On February 12 Harvey Mudd College physics professor Daniel Tamayo was named a 2026 Cottrell Scholar. The award, from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, comes with a $120,000 grant.
Claremont Unified School District is exploring the possibility of asking voters to approve a new facilities bond as part of the November 3 election. If Claremont voters approve it, the potential new bond it would go into effect after the $48.9 million Measure Y bond, which voters approved in 2000, is retired in 2029. CUSD Superintendent Jim Elsasser is pictured here at the February 19 Board of Education meeting. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School’s girls basketball team recently completed an historic season, finishing 13-7, and compiling a seven-game win streak along the way, both school records. “This is not just a good year for girls’ basketball; this is a historic one,” said OLA’s David Higuera. “The Lady Raiders have shattered expectations and school records alike, putting together a season that will be talked about for years to come.” Photo/courtesy of OLA
Chau Vu is the first student from Pomona College to receive a Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award — the highest honor for an undergraduate involved in computer science research. Vu, a senior computer science major and native of Hanoi, Vietnam, was one of eight students from across the country to be recognized last month for their excellence in research. Photo/by Travis Khachatoorian
Claremont Unified School District families, students, faculty and officials celebrated the opening of the new Student and Family Resource Center at Oakmont Outdoor School on February 19. Condit Elementary fifth grader Lizzie Hayward (with scissors) cut the ribbon. Pictured (L-R) are CUSD Board of Education member Kathryn Dunn, board Clerk Cheryl Fiello, Lizzie, Superintendent Jim Elsasser, Senior Liaison of Youth and Family Services Rosa Leong, liaison Millie Monroy, and board Vice President Kathy Archer. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Pomona College will a forum — open to students, faculty and staff — at 2 p.m. Friday to discuss the proposed partnership initiative between Claremont Graduate University and the college and answer questions. The informal “coffee talk” will be led by Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Pomona, Jeff Roth, alongside Executive Director of Strategic Innovation, KJ Fagen. Photo/courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
The Claremont Colleges women’s rugby team the Claremont Foxes preserved their undefeated season Saturday in a tightly contested 17-12 win over visiting UC Santa Barbara, improving to 4-0.
Webb forward Dayleen Morales and defender Kate Cook embrace after Wednesday’s 4-0 home victory over AB Miller, which sent the Gauls on to Saturday’s CIF-SS Division 8 tournament semifinal. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
In 1992, Claremont Graduate University students Cathy Allen and Denise Seider spearheaded an effort to bury two time capsules at the school’s art hall at 251 E. 10th Street. The capsules were meant to be opened in 2017. But the effort was delayed following Allen’s death that year. Now 34 years after they were entombed, the capsules have been unearthed. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Researcher and UCLA chemistry professor Kendall N. Houk is the featured guest for Pomona College chemistry department’s 62nd Robbins Lecture Series, “Computational Organic and Biological Chemistry.”
Work continues on Claremont McKenna College’s Roberts Campus Sports Bowl, the new 50,000-square-foot outdoor sports complex at the 74-acre former quarry just east of Claremont Boulevard, with phase one completion expected in the fall. “You can see that work is progressing,” said Alex Boekelheide, associate vice president of strategic communications and marketing at CMC. “There was some rain earlier this year. The weather was definitely a factor, but now we are working hard to get the structure for the parking garage put together on the west side of the space and things are going well, it’s running very smoothly.” Photo/courtesy of CMC
Some 700 Claremont Unified School District students walked out of classes Wednesday and marched to the intersection of Indian Hill and Foothill Boulevard for a 90-minute protest of the federal immigration crackdowns taking place in Democratically-controlled states across the nation.
Students primarily from Claremont High but also from San Antonio High and El Roble Intermediate School walked out of classes at 1:25 p.m. and remained at the intersection through the end of the school day.
President Trump’s immigration crackdowns in Democratically-controlled states have not only resulted in death and injury, they have propagated fear in the Hispanic and other targeted communities that previously safe havens such as schools are no longer secure. “We’re hearing a lot of fear out of our families that either have undocumented members or are in communities where they’re friends and family members with undocumented folk, definitely,” said CUSD Assistant Superintendent, Student Services Kevin Ward.
In 2011, the Department of Homeland Security issued the DHS Sensitive Locations Memo, which designated schools from pre-school to college, as well as vocational and trade schools, places of worship, and hospitals, among other sites, as “sensitive locations” where Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities were curtailed. In 2021, DHS issued an expanded memo, this time including Customs and Border Protection and adding additional sites. Photo/by Katrin Bolovtsova
Pomona College’s December 10, 2025 settlement agreement resolving a U.S. Department of Civil Rights Title VI investigation indicated students should expect numerous policy changes beginning in spring 2026 designed to prevent further claims of antisemitism. Now three weeks into the spring semester, Molly Chakery, Associated Students of Pomona College representative and sophomore class president, said ASPC has had limited communication with the school regarding any changes. Photo/by Lisa Chakery
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