Crenshaw High School Students Become Journalists for Job-Shadowing Week

This week, four students from Crenshaw High School came to USC's Annenberg School for Communication to get a taste of a career in journalism. On Tuesday, the students spent the day at Annenberg Radio News, where they helped write scripts for the show and practiced radio hosting. Listen to the show here. On Wednesday, we took a tour of Annenberg Television News and watched a hectic, live newscast being assembled. Thursday, the students were at Annenberg Digital News, http://www.neontommy.com/, creating their own video blog on the topic of "gangs."

Fighting for Educational Rights in South Los Angeles

California is facing the biggest education spending cuts in history, as well as thousands of job losses for teachers working in South LA's classrooms. Community forums, like the one held on March 30th at the Baha'i Faith Center in Baldwin Park, are bringing educators, students and residents together to make a stand against what some believe to be a violation of the next generation's constitutional rights. Equal access to education, especially in Title I, low-income schools like Crenshaw High School and Dorsey High School, is being jeopardized in a state ranked 47th in the nation for per-student spending.

Listen to this story on Intersections: The South Los Angeles Reporting Project