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Jerry Brown urges UC to stress graduating students in 4 years
SACRAMENTO — The graduation rates of UC students came under more scrutiny Wednesday as Gov. Jerry Brown urged administrators and faculty to prod more undergraduates to earn a degree in four years, not six. Brown recently proposed giving UC and Cal...
Tags: Politics, Career and Workplace, Colleges and Universities, Government, Jerry Brown
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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: Los Angeles Police Department, Lawyers, Sex Crimes, Sexual Misconduct, Abusive Behavior
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USC made its offer to neuroscientists a no-brainer
The courtship that has riveted the neuroscience world blossomed at a Saturday night dinner in a tony Brentwood restaurant. USC provost Elizabeth Garrett and executive vice provost Michael Quick kept the conversation light. Over chicken with braised...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Technology, Colleges and Universities, USC Trojans, Game Playing
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Police 'all over' Monterey Park after school 'shoot up' threat
Students milled around parking lots on the outskirts of East Los Angeles College on Thursday morning after a shooting threat prompted an evacuation of the campus, along with lockdowns at other Monterey Park schools. All Monterey Park schools were locked...
Tags: Shootings, Transportation Accidents, Medina (Saudi Arabia), Colleges and Universities, Law Enforcement
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L.A. schools will no longer suspend a student for being defiant
Los Angeles Unified has become the first school district in the state to ban defiance as grounds for suspension. In a 5-2 vote that was met with cheers, the school board banned suspensions for defiant students, directing officials to use alternative...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Students
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Troubled youths deserve more effective discipline than suspension
The limits on student suspensions approved by the Los Angeles Unified school board this week may burnish the district's progressive credentials, putting L.A. in the forefront of a national shift away from zero-tolerance policies that ban kids from...
Tags: Entertainment Events, University of California, Los Angeles, F-bomb Dropping, Teachers, Human Interest
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L.A. school board keeps classroom breakfast program
As Gov. Jerry Brown announced more funding for public schools Tuesday, the Los Angeles Board of Education agreed to pay for more school police, maintain a classroom breakfast program and keep supplemental staff at schools. The board also heard...
Tags: Politics, Personal Income, Government, Budgets and Budgeting, Elections
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L.A. Unified bans suspension for 'willful defiance'
In ground-breaking action, the Los Angeles Unified school board voted Tuesday to ban suspensions of defiant students, directing officials to use alternative disciplinary practices instead. The packed board room erupted in cheers after the 5-2 vote to...
Tags: Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest, Students
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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, Geography, Teachers, Los Angeles Unified School District
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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: Wendy Greuel, Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles Unified School District, Students
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Political savvy vs. education skills in L.A. school board runoff
The race for a seat on the Los Angeles Board of Education pits the political savvy of Antonio Sanchez against the education skills of Monica Ratliff. And when it comes to campaign resources, politics trumps all. Sanchez, 31, has used his background in...
Tags: School Examinations, Politics, University of California, Los Angeles, Lawyers, Career and Workplace
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Students raised in foster system honored for completing college
Soon they’ll walk across stages at college campuses around Southern California, accepting their degrees and celebrating with classmates. But at a smaller, more low-key event on Friday, they were honored with a closer set of peers: fellow foster...
Tags: University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, High Schools, Education, California State University, Northridge
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