Tuesday, July 22, 2008

PAY2PLAY AFFECTING PARTICIPATION IN YOUTH SPORTS GROUPS

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  By George B. Sánchez, Staff Writer | LA Daily News July 22, 2008 - Just four months after Los Angeles Unified began charging for after...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Inside LAUSD: MAYOR PUSHES BIGGER BOND

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-- Howard Blume | LOS ANGELES TIMES 03:20 PM PT, Jul 21 2008 - As reported in The Times, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has joined the...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

WHY DO ASIAN STUDENTS GENERALLY GET HIGHER MARKS THAN LATINOS? Trying to bridge the grade divide in L.A. schools: Lincoln High students have candid ideas.

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COLUMN ONE | By Hector Becerra, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer   PHOTO: Barbara Davidson, Los Angeles Times Carlos Garcia, second fr...

The news that doesn't fit from July 20th

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Video - WHAT IS RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION: Dr. Judy Elliott       Dr. Elliot is the Chief Academic Officer of LAUSD JUDGE BLOCKS CONSTRUC...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Video - WHAT IS RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION: Dr. Judy Elliott

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  Dr. Elliot is the Chief Academic Officer of LAUSD YouTube - What is RTI: Judy Elliott

JUDGE BLOCKS CONSTRUCTION OF ECHO PARK SCHOOL: L.A. Unified submitted a flawed environmental impact report, ruling says. District must now consider other sides and gather community opinion.

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By Evelyn Larrubia | Los Angeles Times Staff Writer July 19, 2008 — A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Friday halted construc...

TEACHERS TO LEARN SIGNS OF SUICIDE

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Mary MacVean | LA Times Homeroom Blog July 18, 2008 - The governor signed into law today a measure that would allow teachers to get up...

MAYOR, CHARTER SCHOOLS FAVOR NEW SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION BOND AIMED AT HELPING CHARTERS + VILLARAIGOSA PUSHES SCHOOL BONDS

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NEW SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION BOND AIMED AT HELPING CHARTERS By Kerry Cavanaugh and George B. Sanchez, Staff Writers | LA Daily News Ju...

WHAT TO DO ABOUT DROPOUTS: State statistics should boost efforts to reduce the number of students who quit before graduation.

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Editorial From the Los Angeles Times July 19, 2008 - It wasn't true, what the critics said about half the students in Los Angeles Unif...

DROP-DEAD DROPOUT NUMBERS: One-third of all L.A. Unified students don't finish high school — where's the civic outrage? + a parent chimes in

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  L.A. Times columnist Tim Rutten July 19, 2008 - We've all become so inured to the unending stream of dreary and dispiriting news pr...
Friday, July 18, 2008

MAYOR SAYS DROPOUT REPORT IS WRONG

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By Rick Orlov & George B. Sanchez | Daily Breeze 7/18/08 - Sharply disputing a state report, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Thursday s...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

ARNOLD TERMINATES EDUCATION BUDGET

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  By: Jeremy Chen | Chaffey Breeze - the independent student newspaper of Chaffey College 7/21/08- Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as the ...

Hollywood Happy Ending for Dropouts: STUDENTS AT L.A. ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL TELL SUCCESS STORIES IN THEIR OWN WORDS

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By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer July 17, 2008  - The new state system of tracking individual students to determine a m...

Los Angeles Times: 1 in 4 CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS DROP OUT, STATE SAYS

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  Using a new system for tracking dropouts, California discloses a rate considerably higher than previously reported. About 1 in 3 student...