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Neighbors tried to intervene as teacher allegedly killed ex-wife
Los Angeles police continued to search Sunday for a 46-year-old elementary school teacher who they said stabbed his estranged wife and left her to die on a quiet residential street in West Hills as neighbors rushed to her side. Michael Rodney Kane...
Tags: Teachers, Credit and Debt, Bankruptcy, Los Angeles Police Department, Teaching and Learning
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Eating disorders plague teenage boys, too
Bryan Piperno was just 9 years old when he began keeping his secret. The Simi Valley youngster tossed out lunches or claimed he ate elsewhere. As he grew older, he started purging after eating. Even after his vomiting landed him in the emergency room...
Tags: Eating Disorders, Steroids, Harvard Medical School, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vomiting
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Gov. Brown leaves his mark
Many factors are relevant in determining how much the state should spend to provide a child with an "adequate" public education, but this is not one of them: whether the child lives in an area that was largely agricultural during the early 1970s. Yet...
Tags: Executive Branch, Politics, Jerry Brown, Government, Students
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DWP computers log more than 1,300 hours searching salaries database
Since the Los Angeles Times posted a searchable database of Department of Water and Power employees' pay online late Tuesday night, visitors from the department's computer network have spent approximately 1,300 hours on the site. That's the equivalent...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Networking, Google Inc.
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Newton: In a hurry to pull the 'parent trigger'
What's happening at Weigand Avenue Elementary School in Watts is undeniably divisive and stressful. A slim majority of parents there, fed up with the lack of progress toward a satisfactory education for their children, signed petitions and exercised their...
Tags: Teachers, Crime, Law and Justice, Students, Teaching and Learning
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LAUSD insurer sues to avoid paying $30 million Miramonte settlement
An insurance company has sued the Los Angeles Unified School District seeking to avoid paying settlement costs related to alleged child abuse at Miramonte Elementary School. The action, if successful, could leave the nation's second-largest school...
Tags: Insurance, Michael Jackson, AEG, Abusive Behavior, Corporate Crime
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Insurance firm sues to avoid Miramonte abuse-case settlement
An insurance company has sued the Los Angeles Unified School District seeking to avoid paying settlement costs related to alleged child abuse at Miramonte Elementary School. The action, if successful, could leave the nation's second-largest school...
Tags: Insurance, Students, Trials, Teaching and Learning, Corporate Crime
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For the record
Sex abuse lawsuit: In the May 23 LATExtra section, an article about a jury's award of $1.4 million to a girl who was sexually abused by a classmate said that jurors had apportioned part of the money to the Los Angeles Unified School District and part to...Tags: Medical Specialization, Insulin Injections, Diabetes, Health and Medical Professionals
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Letters: No quick fixes in education
Re "The quick 'trigger,'" Opinion, June 3 Jim Newton is right to point out that parents and their children need help now in securing the best possible education, especially in historically underserved communities. But does that mean that the "parent... -
Middle school locked down after student receives 'puncture' wound
A student at Sal Castro Middle School near downtown Los Angeles received a "puncture wound" in the back after apparent campus "horseplay," officials said Wednesday afternoon. The incident at the school, which is on the Belmont High School campus, forced...
Tags: Disneyland Park, Students, Teaching and Learning
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California Assembly approves hike in state's minimum wage
SACRAMENTO — The Assembly passed a proposal Thursday to hike California's minimum wage from $8 to $9.25 an hour over the next three years and require future increases to keep pace with inflation. Higher wages would "allow our families to provide...Tags: Ron Calderon, Kristin Olsen, Labor Legislation, Politics, AFSCME
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L.A. Unified offers to settle 40 claims from Miramonte students
The Los Angeles Unified School District on Wednesday offered to pay about $17 million to settle 40 legal claims involving a former Miramonte Elementary School teacher accused of committing lewd acts on children — but attorneys for the students say...
Tags: Lawyers, Teachers, Crime, Law and Justice, Students, Mark Berndt
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