On May 16th, all WISH Academy high school students had the opportunity to participate in the Society for Science Education Outreach Day at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Thursday, May 16. Over 1,700 students from 60+ countries were represented at the Science Fair. All students were encouraged to attend the field trip.
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On Tuesday, March 19th, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education voted 4-3 to restrict new and modified charter school co-locations (or agreements to share space on one campus) on many of the district’s campuses across the Los Angeles region starting in 2025. Weeks later, the California Charter School Association sued to block the policy in court.
On the morning of Monday, March 18th, the seniors of Ms. Phillips’s AP English Literature class returned to the WISH Academy library. A quiet murmur filled the space as students spent the last half-hour of a shortened class conversing, studying, and perusing the expanding collection of about 2,500 titles laid out on WISH’s solitary, room-spanning book wall. It was this class’s second visit to the library in the school year, and perhaps the seniors’ third class visit at WISH Academy overall, despite hopes at the beginning of this year for English classes to access the library at least once a month. WISH staff librarian Allison Grover-Khoury was there to welcome the students and reflect on the library’s challenges and successes as it has striven to better serve high-schoolers in recent months.
With Summer Break fast approaching, many of the semester’s activities are beginning to come to a close. However, much remains for students to do and enjoy as we reach the culmination of an eventful school year. Here’s a look ahead to what’s in store in the final 7 weeks of the 2023-2024 academic year.