W e e k l y RIALTO RECORD
Vol 24, NO. 01
August 14, 2025
District Unveils State-of-the-art Learning Complex at Eisenhower High School
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PHOTO MANNY SANDOVAL A new era begins at Eisenhower High School! Rialto USD Board of Education members join Eisenhower High School leaders, staff, and community partners in cutting the ribbon for the school’s New Learning Complex, a $36 million Measure Y project featuring two state-of-the-art classroom buildings designed for 21st-century learning, on August 8.
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reen and Gold is bold and Eisenhower High School recently commemorated a positive, historic moment that will support students in academic success for the years to come. With cheers, applause, and the snip of the official ribbon cutting scissors, Rialto Unified School District’s Dwight D.
Eisenhower High School officially opened its New Learning Complex on the morning of August 8, with a pair of majestic, gleaming classroom buildings that signal a bold new chapter for the 65-year-old historic campus. Rialto USD Board Members joined District officials, business, city and community leaders, Eisenhower High School administration, students, some teachers and
classified staff gathered to celebrate the $36-million project that was paid for through the Measure “Y” school bond, which was approved by Rialto USD voters in 2010. The new buildings replace the old portable classrooms with modern, technology-rich classrooms for today’s students. Lewis during the morning grand opening RUSD cont. on next pg.
Inland Empire Summit Reveals Majority of Rent-Burdened Households Spend Over 50% of Income During Humane Housing Panel By Manny Sandoval
Fontana Unified Kicks Off 2025-26 School Year with New Beginnings, Historic Milestones
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n the Inland Empire, most renter households considered rent-burdened — paying at least 35 percent of their income on rent — actually spend more than half of their income just to keep a roof over their heads. The finding underscored urgent conversations at the Inland Empire Community Foundation’s Policy & Philanthropy Summit, held Aug. 6–7 at the Riverside Convention Center.
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PHOTO MANNY SANDOVAL Dr. Corey Jackson speaks with Inland Empire Community News and KVCR backstage after his panel with Assemblymember Robert Garcia on affordable housing.
The two-day event drew nearly 500 nonprofit leaders, policymakers, and advocates from across Riverside and San Bernardino counties, and even beyond, under the theme “Common Ground for the Common Good.” Conversations throughout the summit were framed by the “vital conditions” — seven interconnected pillars for building thriving communities: basic needs for health and safety, humane housing, meaningful work and wealth, lifelong learning, reliable transportation, belonging and civic muscle, and a thriving natural world. During a humane housing panel, California
Assemblymembers Dr. Corey Jackson and Robert Garcia tackled the Inland Empire’s affordability crisis head-on. Jackson stressed the need for government, nonprofits, and the private sector to end siloed work and coordinate strategies. “There isn’t a single report, study, or recommendation that doesn’t say we have to stop operating in silos,” Jackson said. “If we're all serving the same population, we should be coordinating, sharing information, and creating spaces where nonprofits, government, and business can hear the same message and work together. That’s when we can truly call ourselves a community and deliver for the people we profess to care about.” Pressed on why developers continue building larger, costlier homes, Jackson pointed to the economics of land value and profit margins. He highlighted his bill, AB 317, which incentivizes smaller, more affordable homes so younger generations can buy in the communities where they grew up. Garcia said decades of underSummit cont. on next pg.