Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard joins LAUSD School Board Member Monica Garcia (shown center), Councilman José Huizar and community residents at the groundbreaking ceremony for the East LA Area New High School #1 at Plaza Del Sol at the corner of First Street and Mission Road in Boyle Heights. Scheduled to open in the Fall of 2009, the new high school will accommodate 1,025 students annually and serve as an overflow campus for Roosevelt High School which, at about 5,000 students, is one of the largest schools in the country. During the ceremony, the congresswoman said, “When the new school is completed, it will help ease overcrowding at Roosevelt and help give our students the attention in the classroom that they deserve. Not only will this new school help create a healthy learning environment, but it will provide students with enhanced learning opportunities as well …I am very excited that we are taking this great step forward to fulfill our responsibility to educate our children in quality schools and to create the next generation of our country’s leaders."
 

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