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State's budget fakery takes a toll on charter schools
The CHIME Institute charter school of Woodland Hills would be hard pressed to make ends meet without the help of a program sponsored by the Local Initiatives Support Corp., a New York nonprofit active in underprivileged communities across the nation. So...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, California State University, Northridge, Teaching and Learning, Loans, Personal Income
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We can do more to protect children
In middle school, my daughter had a friend who'd spent most of her life in foster care. During the next few years, the girl would pass through almost a dozen foster families, group homes and probation camps. She had a habit of running away when she felt...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Career and Workplace, Trials, Sex Crimes, Social Services
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Newton: Greuel's hot hand
It's still very, very early in the campaign to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, but right now, it's City Controller Wendy Greuel who's playing the hot hand. The only independent poll shows her in a tie with City Council President Eric Garcetti and...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Career and Workplace, Eric Garcetti, White House, Local Elections
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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, Teaching and Learning, Crime, Law and Justice, Students
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Newton: The impact of the 'parent trigger'
This is what the revolution looks like: It's a rally in Lynwood where parents demand the right to exercise their power to shape their children's future; it's a dozen residents in a South-Central apartment gathering to compare notes on the failing...Tags: National or Ethnic Minorities, Minority Groups, Academic Progress, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Gays and Lesbians
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Newton: It's legacy time for Villaraigosa
First of two parts | Part two
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa doesn't like to talk about his legacy. He's still moving forward, plowing through the work that is left for him to accomplish with two years remaining. Like it or not, though, this is what faces...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employers, Transportation, Travel, U.S. Conference of Mayors
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Los Angeles City Section Hall of Fame adds 42 members
In the 78-year history of high school sports in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the number of Olympians produced, major league players developed and Hall of Fame members inducted from a variety of sports is staggering. So now you can understand...Tags: Eddie Murray, Baseball, Oscar De La Hoya, Kevin Young, Gymnastics Clubs
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Does creationism have a place at a public school?
Los Angeles Unified School District biology teacher Tom Phillips is retiring this month, but on his way out, he's decided to go public with a pet peeve. Phillips believes the continued Christian fundamentalist effort to debunk evolution is undermining...
Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Belief and Faith, Biology, Science, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Newton: Supt. Deasy, head of the class
Of all the jobs in Southern California, it's hard to think of one that is harder to do well than serving as superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The mission — to educate hundreds of thousands of young people of varying...
Tags: Human Interest, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Students, Fiscal Cliff
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Turmoil in West Adams Prep's sports program raises questions
Built at a cost of $176 million, Los Angeles West Adams Prep opened in 2007 with some of the best athletic facilities in the Los Angeles Unified School District. There is an all-weather football field, an all-weather track, a weight room, fitness center,...
Tags: Sports, Polo, Baseball, Teaching and Learning, High School Sports
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Barbara Fiege to retire, ending an era in City Section
After 39 years of working in the Los Angeles Unified School District as a teacher, coach and athletic administrator, Barbara Fiege says she will retire on June 30, 2013. The Los Angeles high school sports scene won't be the same. She is the second-...
Tags: California Interscholastic Federation, Time Warner Cable Inc., High School Sports
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Near L.A. Live, parents press for downtown charter school
If you ask young parents in downtown's South Park area near L.A. Live what their neighborhood needs, it's a decent elementary school, not a professional football team. The city's revitalized historic core has become a way-station for up and comers, who...
Tags: Immigration, Human Interest, Architecture, New Products, Arts and Culture
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