Business
Cigna Corp. said it will sell its Horace Mann insurance company for about $500 million to HME Holdings Inc., a new corporation formed and financed by leveraged buyout specialists Gibbons, Green, van Amerogen and Horace Mann’s own senior management.
Aug. 24, 1988
California
Funeral services were held Thursday for Ron Brown, a 21-year teacher at Horace Mann Elementary School in Beverly Hills who was hailed as one of the district’s most talented and popular teachers.
Feb. 27, 1994
World & Nation
Thank goodness for Ruben Perez, that is what all of the teachers at Horace Mann Middle School said when the assistant principal attempted to suspend 97 students for fighting, absenteeism and sassing back in class.
Jan. 4, 1995
Opinion
To the editor: Whig lawmaker Horace Mann’s noble sentiments, turned into action in the 19th century, that education should be universal, free and unencumbered by forces that demanded mere recitation of lessons and the enslavement of intellect for the purposes of commercial wants, must now take a turn to the right as the idea of for-profit education is elbowing aside a long-standing institution.
May 18, 2017
As we enter the year 2000, and schooling has moved to the front row of citizens’ concerns, what suggestions do we hear for creating an education millennium?
Jan. 23, 2000
When Horace Mann Middle School principal Orlando Johnson thinks about the eighth-graders he sent off to high school last year, he worries about how they will fare.
Dec. 18, 2016
It’s a time-consuming job, it pays nothing, and it tends to involve making decisions that get other people angry.
Oct. 20, 1991
Two Glendale elementary schools are among 27 California campuses nominated by the State Department of Education for honors for helping students from low-income families to excel academically, officials said.
Sept. 3, 1993
The Burbank Unified School District Board voted Friday to keep open for at least a year a child-care center that has run up a deficit of more than $453,000 over three years, but the board will look for more money from corporate sponsors--and perhaps from parents.
Aug. 1, 1987
Roze Barrio knew you needed to be smart, organized and enthusiastic to be a school principal, but was surprised when told she would need flats for her one-day stint at Horace Mann Elementary School.
March 24, 1993