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For the record
Healthcare law: An article in the May 11 Section A about President Obama's efforts to get Americans to enroll in health insurance said that a healthcare campaign by the California Foundation had devoted more than $200 million to a Spanish-language media...Tags: Bananas, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Univision (tv network), Barack Obama, O.J. Simpson
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LAUSD board could ban suspensions for 'willful defiance'
Damien Valentine knows painfully well about a national phenomenon that is imperiling the academic achievement of minority students, particularly African Americans like himself: the pervasive and disproportionate use of suspensions from school for mouthing...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Social Issues, Students, U.S. Department of Education, Teaching and Learning
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Jerry Brown files notice to appeal prison ruling to Supreme Court
Gov. Jerry Brown has, as promised, filed legal papers to appeal federal court orders to reduce the state's prison population with the U.S. Supreme Court. [Updated 4:40 p.m. May 13: The brief notice of appeal, filed Monday afternoon, simply states that a...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Trials, Justice System, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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Talkback: Should LAUSD stop suspending kids for 'willful defiance?'
An effort is underway in Los Angeles County to push a landmark proposal by school board President Monica Garcia that would make L.A. Unified the first school district in California to ban suspensions for willful defiance. That offense is now widely...
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning
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Jerry Brown's budget 'surplus' could be used entirely for schools
SACRAMENTO -- Over the first six months of this year, state revenues are about $4.5 billion higher than the governor’s January projections. And complicated budget formulas could direct nearly all of that money to public schools and community...
Tags: Politics, Government, Elections, Personal Income, Budgets and Budgeting
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California lawmakers approve blank budget bills
One day before Gov. Jerry Brown is scheduled to release his updated spending plan, Democrats in the Legislature began lining up empty bills to streamline the budget process. The annual ritual is a reliable source of controversy in the Capitol, with...
Tags: Bob Huff, Mike Morrell, Mark Leno, Jeff Gorell, Politics
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Letters: You can't just lock people up
Re "Another way on prisons," Editorial, May 8 The failure of the public policy that released sick people from hospitals to the streets simultaneously created the homeless crisis and the overcrowding of jails and prisons. Eighteen percent of all Los...Tags: Regional Authority, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Government, Prisons
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Lake County homes sinking; 'it's a slow-motion disaster'
Home in a subdivision in Lake County are sinking, prompting officials to seek help. Eight homes are now abandoned and 10 others are under notice of imminent evacuation as a hilltop with sweeping vistas of Clear Lake and the Mt. Konocti volcano...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Volcanoes, Water, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues
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Healthcare puts Jerry Brown, Capitol Democrats on different sides
SACRAMENTO — With California's deficit wiped out and its economy starting to hum, this was to be a year when Gov. Jerry Brown was free of the budget logjams that have paralyzed the Capitol. But instead, the governor has a fight on his hands...
Tags: Darrell Steinberg, Regional Authority, Holly J. Mitchell, Barack Obama, Justice System
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Brown, senator at odds over clean energy money
SACRAMENTO -- Six months after voters approved new taxes to fund clean energy projects, Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers remain at odds over how to spend the money on improving energy efficiency at public schools and community colleges. Brown, who is...Tags: Energy Saving, Energy, Regional Authority, Justice System, Politics
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South Korean President visits LA
South Korean President Park Geun-hye, center, with California Gov. Jerry Brown, left and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa are introduced during a ceremony at the Getty House in Los Angeles. President Park Geun-hye ended her first U.S. trip with a...
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NAACP demands Maldonado apologize for 'racial politics'
This post has been updated. See the note below for details. A potential gubernatorial candidate's use of the wrong offender to stir opposition to Gov. Jerry Brown's prison crowding policies drew a sharp rebuke Thursday from an NAACP official who...
Tags: Criminals, Regional Authority, Politics, Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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