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Romney vs. Obama: Getting schooled on education
With jobs and mortgages and same-sex marriage to be bandied about, who has time to talk about what kids are or aren't learning in school? The conversation finally veered toward education last week with Mitt Romney coming out with some stands. The...
Tags: Politics, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Students, Same-Sex Marriage
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L.A. Unified can apply for federal Race to the Top funds
For the first time, L.A. Unified and other individual school districts can apply for federal Race to the Top grants, bypassing California officials, including the governor, who had objected to the rules for receiving the education-reform incentives....
Tags: Politics, Robert F. Kennedy, Teachers Unions, Charity, Teachers
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The teachers union that's failing California
California's education tailspin has been blamed on class sizes, on the property tax restrictions enforced by Proposition 13, on an influx of Spanish-speaking students. But no portrait of the schools' downfall would be complete without mention of the...
Tags: Voting, Politics, Career and Workplace, Charity, Chicago Transit Authority
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No procrastinator left behind
Now that most states have received or applied for relief from the No Child Left Behind Act, California is submitting its own proposal. And in true California fashion, it's — different. The state has long been at odds with the U.S. Education...
Tags: Education, Politics, Justice System, Judges, School Examinations
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24 San Fernando Valley schools seek charter status
Two dozen high-performing Los Angeles schools are seeking to become charter campuses in search of more money and increased flexibility. The list reads like an honor roll of academic excellence. Every school has surpassed the state's target score of 800...Tags: Career and Workplace, Students, Personal Income, School Examinations, Concerts
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Inland Empire district charts its own course to success
The third-graders struggled to keep pace. And their teachers at Parkridge Elementary School in Corona wanted to know why.
The teachers met after school recently and delved into sheets of data and reading comprehension test questions. They quickly found...Tags: Students, Personal Income, School Examinations, Teachers, Concerts
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L.A. Unified moves to revoke charter at Valley high school
Los Angeles school district officials are moving to retake control of Birmingham Community Charter High School, citing numerous alleged problems at the campus that broke away from the system three years ago.
L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy has faulted...Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Students, Teaching and Learning
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At an urban L.A. school, nature grows — and test scores too
Biological diversity does not come easily near the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Hoover Street.
The neighborhood just west of downtown is one of the most crowded in Los Angeles County, with 25,352 people per square mile. It's chock-full of...Tags: Tourism and Leisure Industry, Los Angeles Unified School District, Examinations, Science and Technology, Science
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How an ancient tale saved lives in Japan's tsunami; L.A. Unified may be forced to cut adult education; and California as a place to do business
Internet envy
Re "A digital desert," Column One, March 12
Step 1: Start an online company.
Step 2: Move to a place with no high-speed Internet.
Step 3: Complain.
This is totally ridiculous.
I wouldn't own a manufacturing company and then move to...Tags: Tsunamis, Companies and Corporations, Agricultural Research and Technology, Natural Disasters, Career and Workplace
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When time allows, 1992 riots are poignant lesson in L.A. schools
They were not even born at the time their city erupted in flames, violence and rage against a system that would not convict Los Angeles police officers of brutally beating a black man.
But high school students Jiaya Ingram, Ashley Torres and Jessica...Tags: Prisons, Civil Rights, Social Sciences, Cook County, School Examinations
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Year in review: 5 most disappointing moments in public education
Opinion L.A.There were hopeful signs this year in public education. Test scores continued to rise in California and in the Los Angeles Unified School District, especially among younger students. There was finally widespread agreement that the No Child Left Behind... -
No Child Left Behind: Obama administration grants 10 waivers
Nation NowNo Child Left Behind waivers: The Obama administration has given 10 states a waiver from the federal law known as No Child Left Behind....
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