Commencement ceremonies were held Wednesday at the UCLA Community School in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles. The class of 2014 included 80 seniors, of which an unprecedented 95 percent are headed to college at the University of California, Cal States or other institutions. The speakers were Karen Hunter Quartz, director of research, UCLA Center X and UCLA Community School; Luz Herrera, assistant professor, Thomas Jefferson School of Law; and graduating seniors Hannah Kim, Shanarra Sapida, and Bryan Carrera Patricio.
UCLA Community School is a laboratory for educational research conducted by the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. The K-12 pilot school, located on the campus of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools, is run through a partnership between UCLA, the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Koreatown/Pico-Union community.
