ALHAMBRA: As part of a statewide effort...

ALHAMBRA: As part of a statewide effort by California adult schools to reach adults who lack high school diplomas, Alhambra City and High School District’s Adult Education program will participate in the 10th annual Drop In Day for Drop-Outs. Throughout the day, individualized diploma counseling will be provided on a walk-in, no-appointment basis. The event will take place Jan. 12 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m. at the Garfield Adult Center, 217 N. Garfield Ave., and the Valley Adult Center, 125 E. Valley Blvd.

CLAREMONT: The Claremont Graduate School has received a $320,000 grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation to begin a research project titled “Solutions for Curtailing Gangs, Violence and Drugs in the Los Angeles County Schools.” The study will identify school programs, policies and other factors that have helped curtail gang activity, violence and drug activity on campuses in Los Angeles County. The results may be used to shape public funding of various educational agencies. The three-year project began Jan. 1 in the Claremont Graduate School’s Center for Politics and Economics.

PASADENA: The Pasadena Educational Foundation’s Community Campaign for Schools raised nearly $1.4 million during 1993-94. The 13-year-old foundation is a nonprofit organization that raises money for programs such as after-school child care in the Pasadena Unified School District.

PASADENA: Caltech has been awarded $1.2 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support student research and improve its undergraduate biology and chemistry laboratory classes. The grant, which Caltech will receive over four years, is part of the largest series of grants ever awarded by a private organization. The Hughes institute will donate $86 million to 62 research and doctorate-granting universities in an effort to improve science education for college students.

SAN GABRIEL: The El Monte-Rosemead Adult School is accepting students for its free afternoon English as a Second Language classes. Sessions are available at all levels Mondays through Fridays from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at 850 E. Valley Blvd., San Gabriel. Information: (818) 573-4000.

WALNUT: Mt. San Antonio College has received a $184,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for its substance abuse prevention program. It is the fifth federal grant received since the program’s inception in 1987. The money will fund English as a Second Language programs at six Southern California community colleges to warn of the dangers of cigarettes, alcohol and drugs, and to provide information about safe sex to students with limited English proficiency.