The news that didn't fit from Jan 27th!

2 HIGH SCHOOLS JOIN LAUSD REFORM EFFORT Los Angeles Times Crenshaw High, south of Leimert Park, and Westchester High, on the Westside, will join the Innovation Division, a new reform initiative of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The results of school elections were obtained early Thursday evening by ... PARENTS, TEACHERS TAKING OVER WESTCHESTER HIGH RedOrbit, TX By Paul Clinton - Parents and teachers at Westchester High School have voted to put themselves in charge of academic reforms in an effort to take the low-performing school where Los Angeles Unified couldn't. Working with Loyola Marymount University under ... EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT AT ODDS OVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE INITIATIVE San Jose Mercury News Leaders of the University of California and California State University systems, as well as the California Teachers Association, are in the "no" camp.

INCREASING FINANCIAL LITERACY Los Angeles Times President Bush created the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Education in 2002. On Tuesday, he unveiled the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, which will be co-chaired by investment guru Charles Schwab and Los Angeles-based ...

STATES CUT BUDGET AT OWN RISK Charlotte Observer, NC The poster child of the new hard times is California, where Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suggests cutting (even in the face of rising costs) virtually every state program by 10 percent -- K-12 education, child-care subsidies, public parks and beaches, ...