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Document indicates L.A. Unified knew of sexual misconduct claims
School district officials knew of sexual misconduct allegations in 2009 against a teacher at a Wilmington school but failed to act, an attorney suing the Los Angeles Unified School District said Tuesday. The teacher, Robert Pimentel, 57, was arrested in...
Tags: Teachers, Sex Crimes, Trials, Teaching and Learning, Sexual Assault
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Canoga High: Man dropped gun, tried to blend in, police say
Los Angeles School Police arrested a 19-year-old man who authorities said discarded a handgun and ran from officers onto the Canoga High School campus, prompting an hours-long lock down. The man was detained about 1 p.m., about the same the time...Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Google+, Firearms
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Canoga Park High lockdown lifted; search for gunman continues
A lockdown was lifted at Canoga Park High School on Thursday as police continued to search for a man with a gun seen on campus. The school was placed on lockdown at about 9:25 a.m. as officers from the LAPD and Los Angeles Unified School District police...Tags: Google+
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Canoga Park High School locked down after gunman runs onto campus
A Los Angeles police SWAT team responded to Canoga Park High School on Thursday after an officer spotted a man with a gun on campus, department officials said. The school was placed on immediate lockdown around 9:25 a.m. as officers from the LAPD and...Tags: Google+, Los Angeles Police Department
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Cindy Montañez in City Council District 6
Just once, it would be nice to encounter a well-prepared grass-roots candidate for the Los Angeles City Council. There is no good reason that a neighborhood activist or business owner can't do some homework and come to a council race with a well-crafted,...
Tags: Elections, Paul Koretz, Activism, Paul Krekorian, Local Elections
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Letters: Thumbs up for iPads in schools
Re "iPads in school: toy or tool?," Column, April 28 As a 68-year-old man who reads your paper cover to cover every day, I have to say that Steve Lopez's skepticism about providing iPads to schoolchildren is misplaced. That I can now download books... -
L.A. mayoral candidates debate role of outside spending in elections
Mayoral rivals Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti squared off over the role of outside spending in Los Angeles elections during a debate Monday night in Westwood. Speaking before an audience of several hundred at Sinai Temple, Garcetti attacked Greuel for...
Tags: Elections, Kevin James, Unions, Primaries, Jan Perry
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The messy complications of breakfast in the classroom
The Los Angeles Unified School District is in a period of tremendous upheaval that, it’s hoped, will result in better education for its students. With so much changing and so much at stake, of course there are more than a few daggers drawn. But when...
Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Students, Unions, Michael Bloomberg
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PASSINGS: Ben Pleasants, Kenneth Appel
Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....Tags: Science and Technology, Brooklyn (New York City), Colleges and Universities, Heart Attack, Queens (New York City)
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Letters: A boost for breakfast in school
Re "Breakfast program criticized," April 19 Hungry children do not learn well. Young brains are highly dependent on glucose for optimal functioning. That's why 99% of children get fed on campus when they attend school in Japan. The Los Angeles Unified...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles
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Sal Castro recalled as inspiring teacher
Sal Castro was praised as a tireless, inspiring leader and activist by university professors, doctors and a former California Supreme Court justice at his funeral Thursday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. But he simply wanted to be remembered...
Tags: Teachers, Minority Groups, Antonio Villaraigosa, Teaching and Learning, Human Rights
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Alice Waters, school officials talk teaching with food
Fast food begets a fast-food culture that has seeped into pretty much everything going on in the world today, the chef Alice Waters told a crowd gathered at UCLA for a presentation about edible education. Fast food, Waters said, affects our laws,...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Tomatoes, Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Students
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