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UC Berkeley disavowed a research fund for eugenics it had kept for decades after a campus bioethicist and others protested. But eugenic ideology remains embedded in science today.
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College towns have seen a surge of the coronavirus, especially in Texas, but they’re doubling down on in-person classes and fans at football games.
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The 23-campus system awarded nearly 110,000 baccalaureate degrees this spring, an all-time high for the California State University, and continues to make steady progress toward its 2025 graduation goals.
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‘We cannot tolerate behavior outside of school that places our faculty, staff, and students at increased risk of COVID,’ school principal says.
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A federal lawsuit alleged that ACT discriminated against students with disabilities by flagging their scores and disability to colleges, and by excluding them from a program that allowed colleges to recruit for admissions and scholarships.
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L.A. Unified has failed in its last two tries to pass a property tax increase to help schools. This time backers are more optimistic
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County officials have made it easier for elementary schools to reopen for their youngest students under waivers, dropping a requirement to show union support.
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Coronavirus has especially harmed students with disabilities, according to a majority of parent survey responses
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Social supports are scarce for 269,000 homeless students in California, UCLA report finds.
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An ugly fight over social media about racism at USC had one positive outcome: the university president’s strong statement condemning anti-Semitism.
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A $100-million donation from the Jay Pritzker Foundation will provide scholarships and emergency financial aid to tens of thousands of students.
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COVID-19 hasn’t quite changed everything: In elections for the L.A. Board of Education, it’s still charter school advocates facing off against the teachers union. The stakes are high.
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In suits nationwide, students say they aren’t getting what they paid for; universities counter that they are doing their best amid a crisis.
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The two USC students didn’t know each other — one a student government leader who is Jewish, the other a Black undergraduate who wanted to impeach her. But they collided over racism, anti-Semitism and Zionism in a brouhaha that has roiled the school, sparked social media attacks and prompted new debate over age-old questions about the line between free speech and hate speech.
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L.A. County is imposing requirements more stringent than the state’s on reopening schools, as if staring at screens for hours each day isn’t harming kids.
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San Francisco shut down early in the pandemic and later limited reopening. Now the city is the first urban center in California where the risk of infection is rated as minimal.
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Opinion: The roots of California’s tattered economy were planted long before the coronavirus arrived
Opinion: The roots of California’s tattered economy were planted long before the coronavirus arrived
Dependence on tech industries can’t help the state recover lower-wage job losses or reduce the entrenched inequality that makes California susceptible to rolling catastrophes.
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Most COVID-19-era entertainment is geared toward social and family bubbles. If you thought going it alone was odd before, well....
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College towns have seen a surge of the coronavirus, especially in Texas, but they’re doubling down on in-person classes and fans at football games.
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There’s been a COVID outbreak among Pence’s top aides. The vice president will continue an aggressive campaign schedule.
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Barrett’s confirmation should finally convince American voters that Republicans don’t deserve to control the U.S. Senate.
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‘I’m always looking for people to play racist buffoons,’ Sacha Baron Cohen tweeted after Trump called him a ‘creep’ upon the new ‘Borat’ film’s release.
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The fast-moving Silverado fire broke out in Orange County on Monday and quickly grew to more than 7,000 acres. Southern California Edison says its equipment may be to blame. A second blaze started hours later in Corona and forced evacuations in Yorba Linda.
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Here are the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board endorsements for president, California ballot measures and more.
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In teaming up with a tech giant to address the pandemic’s racial disparities, California managed to highlight the very inequities it sought to erase.
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Dodgers defeat Rays in Game 5 of World Series
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The campaign in support of Proposition 22 spent an average of $628,854 a day from Jan. 1 through mid-October.
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