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Parents outraged after teacher accused of molesting 12 students
L.A. NOWAngry parents are demanding answers after it was revealed that a now-retired principal twice failed to report accusations of sexual misconduct by a teacher who this week was charged with molesting 12 students at a Wilmington elementary school. One school.... -
Principal faces probe over teacher held in abuse of 20 kids
L.A. NOWA now-retired principal faces a criminal investigation after school officials said she twice failed to report accusations of sexual misconduct by a teacher who this week was arrested on suspicion of molesting 19 students at a Wilmington elementary school.... -
Former L.A. teacher from Newport accused of molesting 20 children
A former Los Angeles Unified School District teacher was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of committing lewd acts and sexually abusing 20 children and an adult, law enforcement authorities said. Robert Pimentel, 57, of Newport Beach, who taught at...
Tags: Crimes, Teaching and Learning, Sex Crimes, Trials, Abusive Behavior
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Deasy orders test scores to count for 30% of teachers' evaluations
L.A. NOWL.A. schools Supt. John Deasy announced Friday that 30% of a teacher’s evaluation will be based on student standardized test scores, setting off another round of contention in the nation’s second-largest school system just weeks before a... -
Letters: Bloomberg's meddling in L.A. schools
Re "N.Y. mayor gives to L.A. campaigns," Feb. 13 An out-of-state billionaire decides to give $1 million to anti-union candidates running for the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. Could this be one of the right-wing Koch brothers...Tags: Politics, Local Elections, Michael Bloomberg, Elections, Antonio Villaraigosa
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Beverly Hills High wins county Academic Decathlon
L.A. NOWBeverly Hills High School has won the Los Angeles County Academic Decathlon, earning a spot in the the state competition in Sacramento next month. Beverly Hills bested 51 other teams, scoring 52,990.3 points out of a possible 60,000. The competition...... -
PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer
Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...Tags: Science and Technology, Aerospace Manufacturing, Manufacturing and Engineering, Pneumonia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Letters: The keys to learning
Re "Beware of miracles," Editorial, Feb. 6 I was delighted to see The Times recommend healthy skepticism before adopting the latest "solutions" to educational problems. And yes, I clearly remember my colleagues' "value-added" ratings splashed across...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, School Examinations, Students, Human Interest, Teachers
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We can do more to protect children
In middle school, my daughter had a friend who'd spent most of her life in foster care. During the next few years, the girl would pass through almost a dozen foster families, group homes and probation camps. She had a habit of running away when she felt...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal, Teaching and Learning, Sex Crimes, Child Abuse
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L.A. Unified misused $158 million in student meal funds
L.A. NOWAt least eight California school districts have misappropriated millions in funding intended to pay for meals for low-income students — the biggest culprit being the Los Angeles Unified School District, according to a state Senate watchdog group.... -
Detectives investigating ex-priest's conduct with girl, then 16
L.A. NOWLos Angeles County sheriff's detectives have launched an investigation of an ex-priest and L.A. school district employee about a sexual relationship he allegedly had with a 16-year-old in the late 1980s, The Times has learned. The inquiry into the... -
Education miracles that aren't
Beware of education miracles. Too often, there's less there than meets the eye. Remember the extraordinary gains in test scores and lowered dropout rates in Houston schools more than a decade ago? They became the model for the federal No Child Left Behind...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, School Examinations, Students, Colleges and Universities, George W. Bush
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