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Rivals of Jerry Brown submit signatures for tax initiative
PolitiCalBackers of a tax to fund public schools and pre-school in California submit signatures. The signatures submitted by backers of a tax to fund public schools and pre-school in California will probably be enough to qualify for the November ballot.... -
Vote on revising CIF transfer rules creates uncertainty
Varsity Times InsiderNo one really knows how a proposal to revise CIF transfer rules will really work out. It moved a bit closer to becoming reality on Wednesday when the Southern Section Council endorsed the proposal by a landslide vote, 41-40. Well,...... -
Jerry Brown tries new line of attack against rival tax measures
PolitiCalBackers of Gov. Jerry Brown's measure to raise upper-income and sales taxes have found a new line of attack against rival tax-initiative proposals: Those other measures, they say, do nothing to help the state's $9.2-billion deficit.... -
Teacher incentives: Another if-only that doesn't measure up
Opinion L.A.When it comes to raising achievement in public schools, theories abound. Not just theories. Absolute certitude. If only schools were smaller, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation used to think, before it pushed for and got such schools throughout the... -
Patt Morrison Asks: Jonah Lehrer, brain teaser
Zombies in movie theaters, zombies on television — a whole lot of us have brains on the brain. And so, in a substantially different way, does Jonah Lehrer. He's put himself at the crossroads of neuroscience and the humanities with books like his...
Tags: Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), Politics, Table Tennis, Schools, Science and Technology
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Mexico's President Calderon to make first official trip to Cuba
World NowMexico's conservative President Felipe Calderon will make his first official visit to Cuba next week, a long-delayed effort to improve relations between the two governments.... -
Mega Millions mystery over: Maryland winners all school employees
The Maryland Mega Millions mystery has been solved. Three public school educators stepped forward Monday to cash in their ticket for a share of a record jackpot that topped $656 million. They wore black gloves and matching red sweatshirts and hid...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Schools, Career and Workplace, Lotteries, Mega Millions Lottery
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Tennessee enacts evolution, climate change law
Tennessee enacted a law Tuesday that critics contend allows public school teachers to challenge climate change and evolution in their classrooms without fear of sanction.
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam allowed the controversial measure to become law without...Tags: Education, Conservation, Lawyers, Regional Authority, Schools
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Boys' basketball: Public schools flourishing in some divisions
Varsity Times InsiderLet's hear it for the public schools in basketball divisions 1 through 3. Eighty of the 88 teams left in the boys' playoffs are public schools. I'd say the Southern Section coaches who wanted to give more opportunities to the...... -
Jerry Brown to order new round of California budget cuts
PolitiCalGov. Jerry Brown is announcing a revised budget forecast Tuesday, and with California’s economy not growing as quickly as Brown and Democratic lawmakers hoped, state funding for public school busing could end and deeper cuts to the state’s... -
Podcast: The politics of Jerry Brown’s budget
PolitiCalWith the release of his $92.6-billion spending blueprint last week, Gov. Jerry Brown began a political campaign that gives California voters a choice between higher taxes or billions of dollars in spending cuts to public schools.... -
Gov. Jerry Brown calls for less testing of public school students
PolitiCalGov. Jerry Brown, in his State of the State address Wednesday, said California public school students take too many standardized tests, and that the results of those exams are not analyzed quickly enough. “I believe it’s time to reduce the.......
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