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White House includes Fil-Am teacher in leading-edge climate meet
By Cecile Caguingin Ochoa A Special Report for TheFILAMLA and Inquirer.net, Content partners San Pedro, CA – Science teacher Jennifer Suzara-Cheng from this small coastal town in Southern California sat August 20 at the Eisenhower Auditorium of the White House among some 200 outstanding delegates invited by the Obama Administration to participate in its Back-to-School […]
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UP summa cum laude sums what is to be ‘iskolar ng bayan’
(TheFilamLA Editor: June is graduation time in the Philippines and universities in the U.S. TFLA focuses on two commencement speeches that capture some sentiments of the era in two places of education: one in the Philippines another in California. Patricia Nabong recently delivered this valedictory address at her college graduation at the University of the […]
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Fil-Am teacher raises a ‘shark’ and environment consciousness in classroom; receives national award
By Cecile Caguingin Ochoa San Pedro, CA- Jennifer Suzara-Cheng, an immigrant from Camarines Norte recently received an “Outstanding Green-o-vation” award from Green Schools Inc. for integrating environmental conservation education in the classroom. Green Schools Inc., a nonprofit organization awards students, teachers and administrators from across the nation for their contributions to the environmental movement. Suzara-Cheng, […]
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FilAm boy delivers graduation speech at Orange County’s oldest Catholic school
St. Catherine’s Academy (SCA), an all-boys Catholic School with a military tradition in Anaheim is proud to announce its graduating Class of 2015. The Graduation Eucharist and Commencement Ceremony will take place on June 12, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Thirty-five cadets, both local and international, will celebrate their successes from the oldest school […]
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Free ESL course offered at San Gabriel Valley Community Center
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles (Advancing Justice – LA) is launching its first-ever English as a Second Language (ESL) course at its San Gabriel Valley Community Center in Monterey Park. Despite an increasing number of cities in the San Gabriel Valley with a majority Asian American population, there remains a significant lack of […]
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Parents and children promote bilingual literacy
The L.A. Brilliant Lions Club, Friends of Echo Park Branch Library, and Green Mango Books recently joined hands to promote literacy and the Philippine Heritage Collection at the Echo Park Branch Library in Historic Filipino Town. The festivities showed the value of partnerships among community organizations. Keynote speakers and authors Greg Villanueva and Carlene Bonnivier […]
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Gov. Brown names Carson man to California’s library board
Florante Ibanez, 62, of Carson, has been appointed to the California Library Services Board. Ibanez has served in several positions at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles since 1992, including manager of library computer services and computer resources center assistant. He was an adjunct professor for the Loyola Marymount University, Asian Pacific American Studies Program from […]
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California’s 1.5 million Filipino Americans a ‘sleeping giant,’ says Assembly member Rob Bonta
By Jaki Joanino ALAMEDA CITY — AB 123 author and first Filipino American California Assembly member, Rob Bonta, held a town hall panel at the city hall on October 25th focused on the implementation of education curriculum revision and other issues of concern to FilAms. The town hall meeting also celebrated Pilipino American History Month […]
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AB 123 signed into law; textbooks will soon include Filipinos’ role in growth of California labor movement
By Cecile Caguingin-Ochoa Special to The FilAm L.A. Governor Jerry Brown signed on October 2 AB 123 – a first-of-its-kind bill requiring the state curriculum to include the contributions of Filipino Americans to the farm labor movement in California. Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) who authored the bill said Governor Brown’s signature of the bill is […]