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Ex-USC professor to return to L.A. to face child sex charges
A former USC professor who was indicted in sex crimes against children overseas was expected to arrive in Los Angeles as early as Wednesday night after he was captured in a coastal town in Mexico, federal authorities told The Times. Walter Lee Williams,...
Tags: Prosecution, FBI, Los Angeles Police Department, Mexico, Philippines
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Letters: Evaluating Common Core
Re "Was adopting Common Core a mistake?," Editorial, June 17 Politics aside, the changes outlined in the Common Core curriculum standards — which emphasize analysis and understanding over rote memorization — are essential. For too long,...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Education, Teaching and Learning, U.S. Department of Education
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Letters: A church's duty to a teacher
Re "Ex-spouse's behavior costs teacher her job," June 15 The Roman Catholic Church has a centuries-old record of retaining within its employ pedophile priests with known and extended histories of abusing children. Isn't it twistedly and hypocritically...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Roman Catholicism, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Teaching and Learning
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Here's a teacher I'd want for my children
I don't know what her students' test scores are like, or what her principal thinks. But I do know that if I had a child in third grade, I'd want someone like Kaylie Gomez to teach her. Gomez is a rookie teacher at a tiny charter school in South Los...
Tags: Science and Technology, Charter Schools, Schools, Students, California State University, Northridge
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New teacher training study decries California universities
A new front is opening in the education wars as a report released Tuesday derides California's teacher training schools as among the worst in a nation full of substandard programs. The study by a controversial Washington, D.C.-based policy group singles...
Tags: High Schools, Teach for America, Schools, Loyola Marymount University, University of California, Los Angeles
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Teacher loses job at Catholic school because of ex-husband
SAN DIEGO -- A veteran teacher at a Catholic school has lost her job because school officials are worried her ex-husband, now serving a jail sentence for domestic abuse and stalking, poses a danger to students and teachers when he is released. When...
Tags: Trials, Abusive Behavior, Punishment, Roman Catholicism, Religion and Belief
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Neighbors tried to intervene as teacher allegedly killed ex-wife
Los Angeles police continued to search Sunday for a 46-year-old elementary school teacher who they said stabbed his estranged wife and left her to die on a quiet residential street in West Hills as neighbors rushed to her side. Michael Rodney Kane...
Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Credit and Debt, Los Angeles Police Department, Bankruptcy, Teaching and Learning
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Teacher at Catholic school loses job over ex-husband's actions
SAN DIEGO — A veteran teacher at a Catholic school has lost her job because school officials are worried her ex-husband, now serving a jail sentence for domestic abuse and stalking, will pose a danger to students and teachers when he is released....
Tags: Trials, Abusive Behavior, Punishment, Roman Catholicism, Religion and Belief
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Deasy and new board member Ratliff laud teacher report
Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy on Thursday broadly endorsed proposals from an outside group for attracting and retaining teachers, including more money for those who take on difficult assignments and deliver measurable academic gains. Positive...Tags: School Examinations, Adult Education, Teaching and Learning, Academic Progress
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Child porn allegedly found in home of ex-Santa Ana teacher
A search of a former Santa Ana teacher’s home in Orange County turned up a large cache of child pornography and charges that the man molested one of his relatives, authorities said Thursday. Robert Ruben Ornelas, 62, is charged with two counts...
Tags: Sex Crimes, Prosecution, Abusive Behavior, FBI, Pornography
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Ex-Simi Valley teacher denies sexual relationship with child
A former Simi Valley elementary school teacher has pleaded not guilty to having a sexual relationship with a boy student. Malia Brooks, 32, who worked as a sixth-grade teacher at Garden Grove Elementary, was arrested Tuesday by Simi Valley police on...
Tags: Prosecution, Teaching and Learning
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Group urges teachers' raises based on student achievement
A local advocacy group is pushing for teachers' raises and bonuses based on whether instructors are willing to take on difficult assignments and on whether they deliver measurable student achievement gains. The proposals are part of two policy papers...Tags: Eric Garcetti, Students, School Examinations, Education, Teaching and Learning
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