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Letters: Spending on schools
Re "A lifeline for L.A. schools?," Column, May 26 After reading Sandy Banks' column, I decided to do a little fact checking for elementary through secondary school funding. I went to the most recent U.S. Census report, which has data from 2009. Here...Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning
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Assembly votes for more scholarships, leaves funding for later
Eating its dessert before its vegetables, the Assembly approved a bill Wednesday that would provide generous new scholarships to the public universities and colleges in California for families earning less than $160,000. The measure, AB 1501, includes...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Democratic Party, Financial Aid, Awards and Prizes
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'Birthers' claim Obama applied to college as a foreigner
We might have spoken too soon. On Monday, we wrote that “birther” conspiracies about President Obama had mostly been laid to rest when the White House released his long-form Hawaiian birth certificate last April, but that some detractors...
Tags: Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Students, Wolf Blitzer, Donald Trump
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Letters: What's behind a trust
Re "An all-male college's future," Editorial, May 25 So the trustees of Deep Springs College want to start enrolling women despite the founding financial trust that established it as a male-only school. I'm sure the trustor didn't mean "mankind." As...Tags: Colleges and Universities
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Study traces origins of monogamous coupling
The roots of the modern family — monogamous coupling — lie somewhere in our distant evolutionary past, but scientists disagree on how it first evolved. A new study says we should thank two key players: weak males with inferior fighting...
Tags: University of Texas at Austin, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Kent State University, Conservation
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Tobacco taxes are great, but Proposition 29 stinks
Yes, our freeways and surface streets are crumbling. But the next time your front wheel hits an enormous pothole, you can remember with pride that California is the world leader in one form of highway maintenance: paving the road to hell with good...Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses, Science and Technology, Michael Hiltzik, Tobacco Products
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College transcripts replace birth certificate for Obama detractors
Now that the issue of the president’s birth certificate has been laid to rest (mostly), some conservatives are turning their attention to a new obsession: Barack Obama's college transcripts. Last week, a website that already had offered a $10,000...
Tags: Politics, Mitt Romney, Students, Vietnam War (1955-1975), The Boston Globe
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For Romney, beating Obama on education could be tricky
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.Herman Cain had 9-9-9. Lately, Mitt Romney is all about E-E-E. As in, the economy, energy and -- new this week -- education. Romney rolled out his education plan at a speech in Washington last week, and followed up with a visit to a charter school in...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Teachers Unions, Mitt Romney, Regional Authority
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Letters: Liberals-only UC?
Re "When academics are advocates," Opinion, May 20 It's regrettable that John M. Ellis and Charles L. Geshekter of the California Assn. of Scholars, which produced a report purporting to show a liberal bias in University of California instruction, have...
Tags: Republican Party, University of California, Berkeley, Politics, Democratic Party, Joe McCarthy
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Think Congress is sophomoric? A study says you're right
— If it sounds like the debates in Congress have devolved into those of teenagers, it's because they have. Discourse in the House and Senate has dropped a full grade level — to the equivalent of high school sophomore, according to a new...
Tags: Republican Party, Mick Mulvaney, Politics, YouTube, Victor Hugo
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California Senate OKs ban to keep employers from social media passwords
California's Senate doesn't think your employer should have access to your Facebook account, and now, it's passed a bill reflecting that attitude. The state Senate passed SB1349 Friday, which would make it illegal for employers and admissions officers at...
Tags: Social Media, Career and Workplace, Leland Yee, Employees, Employment Opportunities
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University of Missouri Press to close, after 54 years
Jacket CopyThe University of Missouri will pull the plug on its 54 year old press, just the latest in a string of academic publishing casualties...
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