The news that didn't fit from Jan 20th!

►GRADUATING SENIORS: WANT TO GO TO COLLEGE? GET YOUR APPLICATION IN BY FEBRUARY 1^st

Application denied. Fox News reports that's what about 10,000 prospective students applying to the Cal-State University system will hear if their applications are not in by February 1st.

The already under funded system moved up their application deadline to cope with the Governor's recent budget cuts. [story continues]

►LEGAL TUSSLE OVER LA NIGHTCLUB ENDS + SETTLEMENT DETAILS

The Associated Press reports the Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay a historic preservation group $4 million to drop a lawsuit and allow for destruction of the last building standing on the site where Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated.

The school system wants to build a new campus on the site where the Ambassador Hotel once stood but now only houses the dilapidated Cocoanut Grove nightclub, part of the hotel complex that once attracted such headliners as Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. [story continues]

►SCORES A PLUS FOR VALLEY SCHOOLS

The Daily News reports San Fernando Valley schools are continuing to improve and generally outperform others in Los Angeles Unified, county and statewide on key student achievement tests, according to a new report released Monday.

The LAUSD's Valley schools and the Burbank, Glendale and Las Virgenes school districts all scored better than the LAUSD's average Academic Performance Index score of 655 in 2006-07, according to the report by researchers at Cal State Northridge. [story continues]

►LAUSD EYES NEW SCHOOL ON LONG BEACH SITE

The Long Beach Press Telegraph said at a community meeting scheduled Wednesday, district planners will discuss demolition of a Long Beach warehouse to build a high school for Carson students.

The Los Angeles Unified School District's choice of location in the City of Long Beach approved by the board in April has riled neighbors and triggered a lawsuit from the city of Long Beach that could be decided in late February.

The high school with 67 classrooms and a sports stadium with 1,500 seats would be built at the 14-acre site at Carson Street and Santa Fe Avenue.would reduce crowding at maxed-out Carson High and Banning High in Wilmington. The school would open to 1,900 students in the fall of 2012. [story continues]