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L.A. Votes: Mayoral candidates skip overt attacks, focus on education
After months of slashing at each other's integrity and trustworthiness, mayoral candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti largely put aside their differences with one week left before the May 21 election as they supported non-controversial education...
Tags: Carmen Trutanich, Elections, AEG, Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel
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2 leaders in L.A.'s 6th council district race are women
The two apparent front-runners to replace Los Angeles City Councilman Tony Cardenas are veteran public officials with strong connections to the east San Fernando Valley Democratic machine that has sent candidates to City Hall since the mid-1990s. Both...Tags: Government, Elections, Public Officials, Jose Huizar, Gloria Molina
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Letters: Why student behavior matters
Re "Rule on defiant students revised," May 15 The Los Angeles Unified School District's ban on student suspensions for "willful defiance" reminded me of when I was observing class as a requirement for my teaching credential roughly 40 years ago. The...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Students, Politics, Teaching and Learning
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Letters: Dealing with defiant students
Re "A milder way to fight defiance," May 13 "Willful defiance" is not a trivial matter because it affects the ability of teachers to focus on instruction. The real issue is whether suspension is an effective way of dealing with this kind of misbehavior....
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning
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Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti lay sniping aside
Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti ventured into school district politics Tuesday, lending support to non-controversial actions and mostly taking a respite from their recent sniping in the Los Angeles mayoral contest. A week before voters go to the polls,...
Tags: Rentals, Students, Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Teaching and Learning
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Officials address restroom problem at Locke High
Chris Tellez sat in class, his stomach grinding. The 15-year-old felt fine in his first class two weeks ago at Animo Locke Charter High School 2 in Watts, but by second period he could wait no longer. "I had to use the restroom," he said. "But the...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Teachers, Students, University of California, Los Angeles, Vandalism
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Former L.A. Unified teacher to stand trial on sex abuse charges
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.A former Los Angeles Unified School District teacher was ordered to stand trial on 14 charges of sexually assaulting nine students and a relative, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said. A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge in...Tags: Robert Pimentel, Teachers, Sex Crimes, Sexual Misconduct, Judges
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Letters: How to define cheating in schools
Re "A clash over how to address teacher cheating," May 12 As a principal and a superintendent, I had always taken the view that one of the very important roles of a teacher was to model appropriate behavior. It would appear that the state Commission...Tags: School Examinations, Teachers, Geography, Teaching and Learning
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Greuel and Garcetti notch victories at Los Angeles school board
Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel ventured into school district politics Tuesday, lending support to noncontroversial actions and mostly taking a respite from their recent sniping in the Los Angeles mayoral contest. A week before voters go to the polls,...
Tags: Students, Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Teaching and Learning
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L.A. Unified OKs $1 lease to save aviation mechanics school
The closure of a popular aviation mechanics school at Van Nuys Airport was averted Tuesday when Los Angeles education officials agreed to lease the campus from the city's airport agency at the dramatically reduced rate of $1 a year. The North Valley...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry
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Canoga High: Man dropped gun, tried to blend in, police say
Los Angeles School Police arrested a 19-year-old man who authorities said discarded a handgun and ran from officers onto the Canoga High School campus, prompting an hours-long lock down. The man was detained about 1 p.m., about the same the time...Tags: Firearms, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Canoga Park High lockdown lifted; search for gunman continues
A lockdown was lifted at Canoga Park High School on Thursday as police continued to search for a man with a gun seen on campus. The school was placed on lockdown at about 9:25 a.m. as officers from the LAPD and Los Angeles Unified School District police...
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