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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: Brooklyn (New York City), University of Michigan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Los Angeles, Science and Technology
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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, Politics, Human Rights, Minority Groups, Antonio Villaraigosa
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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: Students, University of California, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure
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A dangerous game for UTLA
The leadership of the Los Angeles teachers union recently conducted a survey among its members asking if they had confidence in Los Angeles Unified Supt. John Deasy. Although it was highly unusual for the union to mount this kind of frontal attack on...
Tags: Teachers, Politics, Students, Career and Workplace, Unions
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Man, 18, stabbed to death at Cleveland High School in Reseda
An adult school student was stabbed Wednesday afternoon in an altercation at Cleveland High School in Reseda and later died of his wounds, law enforcement authorities said. The victim was a student at West Valley Occupational Center in Woodland Hills,...Tags: Witnesses, Students, Prosecution, Teaching and Learning, Los Angeles Police Department
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Jerry Brown vows battle with Democratic critics of education plan
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown offered a spirited defense of his plan to overhaul the state’s education system Wednesday and warned Democratic critics of his plan that they were “going to get the battle of their lives” if they attempt to...
Tags: Politics, Government, Jerry Brown, Finance, Darrell Steinberg
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Defiance no reason to suspend students, board president says
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details.Administrators in the Los Angeles Unified School District would no longer be allowed to suspend students for mouthing off or other acts of “willful defiance” under a groundbreaking school board resolution set to be proposed next week. Amid...Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Students, University of California, Los Angeles
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L.A. Unified teacher arrested for alleged child porn possession
A Los Angeles Unified School District teacher was arrested and charged Tuesday with possession of child pornography after he allegedly ordered and received through the mail sexually explicit DVDs of children, officials said. Douglas Randolph Collins,...Tags: Teachers, Labor Legislation, Government Postal Delivery, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace
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In L.A. school board race, sky-high spending continues
Record spending will continue in the last remaining race for a seat on the Los Angeles school board, as a political action committee has put together a war chest of about $600,000 to use on behalf of a candidate endorsed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa....
Tags: Teachers, Politics, Michelle Rhee, Eli Broad, Teaching and Learning
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Letters: Discipline 101
Re "'Willful defiance' in schools," Editorial, April 16 "Willful defiance" is hardly a "relatively minor infraction" that rarely merits a suspension from school. Unchecked, it leads to a breakdown of classroom discipline, adversely affecting the... -
Letters: Discipline in the classroom
Re "'Willful defiance' in schools," Editorial, April 16 As a principal in the Los Angeles Unified School District, I have a few concerns about your editorial on suspension policy. The Times said that suspending kids from school rarely makes sense...Tags: Teachers, Entertainment Events, Students, John Gurdon, Teaching and Learning
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