James A. Garfield High School in East Los Angeles is headed to state after winning the Los Angeles Unified School District\u2019s 45th annual Academic Decathlon.
The Eastside school claimed the top prize \u2014 the Superintendent\u2019s Trophy \u2014 earning 44,336.10 points out of 60,000 points. Abraham Lincoln High in Lincoln Heights scored 40,181.70 and is among the eight LAUSD schools advancing to the state competition.<\/p>\n
The LAUSD teams will compete at the California Academic Decathlon on March 19-22 in Santa Clara.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Decathletes representing Garfield High are Derek Dominguez, Ana Santos, Davian Valladares, Joseph Villa, Liana Lopez, Julie Lopez, David Ventura, Kimberly Palacios, and Briana Zuniga.<\/p>\n
Villa was among the top students who earned the highest district-wide scores, coming in third with 8,267.5 points out of 10,000 points.<\/p>\n
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Board member Roc\u00edo Rivas, who represents East LA, said Garfield\u2019s win \u201creflects the real progress taking shape across our district and the momentum we\u2019re <\/p>\n
building as they represent our communities at the California Academic Decathlon.\u201d<\/p>\n
The district said<\/a> it holds 23 state titles \u2013 more than any district in California \u2013 and 19 national titles.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAt Los Angeles Unified, we are proud to represent one of the most diverse student communities in the nation,\u201d said Academic Decathlon Regional Director Dr. Neena Agnihotri in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cOur Decathletes come from many cultures, languages, and life experiences, and that diversity is one of our greatest strengths,\u201d Agnihotri said.<\/p>\n Also competing in the California Academic Decathlon are: Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies, Van Nuys High School, John Marshall High School, Bell High School, The Science Academy STEM Magnet and Dr. Richard A. Vladovic Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy.<\/p>\n This story<\/a> appeared first on LA Local<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James A. Garfield High School in East Los Angeles is headed to state after winning the Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[92891,96482,48,52,51,96483,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-209573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-academic-decathlon","tag-garfield-high","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lausd-decathlon-winner","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}