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Parents choose L.A. Unified-charter partnership to run school
Parents at 24th Street Elementary School have overwhelmingly chosen a partnership between the Los Angeles Unified School District and a charter operator to run the persistently low-performing Jefferson Park campus. Among those eligible to cast ballots,...
Tags: Politics, Jefferson Park, Elections, Lobbying, Crime, Law and Justice
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FAQs: The Times' endorsement process for the May 21 L.A. elections
The May 21 Los Angeles city election features 13 contests: six runoffs for citywide and council district races, one primary contest for a council district race, one Los Angeles Unified School District runoff, one Los Angeles Community College District...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Political Fundraising, Voting, Local Elections
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Parents vote on future of 24th Street Elementary
Voting began at 7 a.m. Tuesday among parents who will chart the future of 24th Street Elementary School under a controversial parent-empowerment law. The law -- known as the parent trigger -- grants substantial authority to parents when a majority at...
Tags: Politics, Jefferson Park, Elections, Lobbying, Voting
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The basics of better schools
The bile flowed freely in the first round of L.A.'s school board elections in March, fueled by unprecedented sums of campaign money. To what end? Listening to the ads of the self-styled reformers, you'd have thought that charter schools were the...
Tags: Politics, Teaching and Learning, University of California, Berkeley, Students, Immigration
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A feeder program for the LAPD
The subject of the morning class was criminal investigation, and there was no hesitation on the part of the 17-year-old when he was asked to stand and explain aggravated assault. The boy related the story of how his father, estranged from his mother,...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Law Enforcement, Students, Los Angeles Police Department
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Vicky Lagos is named assistant City Section commissioner
Varsity Times InsiderVicky Lagos has been selected to become the assistant commissioner of the City Section when it breaks away from the Los Angeles Unified School District on July 1. She has worked for the athletics office since 2006.... -
750 L.A. Unified security aides hired since Newtown school shooting
The Los Angeles Unified School District has hired more than 750 of the 1,000 security aides it decided to employ after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. The aides, equipped with radios, keep watch during school hours,...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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L.A. Unified filling security jobs created after Newtown shooting
The Los Angeles Unified School District has hired more than 750 of the 1,000 security aides it decided to employ after the mass shooting last year at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. The aides, equipped with radios, keep watch during school...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Caltech and an abundance of caution
Re: “Arden residents fight against Caltech plan,” March 3. Ruffled homeowners should take approach used for Los Angeles Unified School District’s Belmont Learning Center: Hire a Caltech geology professor who finds a bedrock fault (not so...Tags: Saudi Arabia
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Special interests spend millions, Greuel and James on the attack
Nearly $4 million in independent spending has poured into Los Angeles election campaigns in recent weeks. A Times analysis finds that more than three-quarters comes from groups tied to unions, and that, in addition to efforts on behalf of mayoral...Tags: Politics, Petroleum Industry, Elections, Dennis P. Zine, Public Officials
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Letters: It's much more than 'shop' class
Re "Time to revive 'career tech,'" Column, March 21 I appreciate George Skelton's advocacy of Career Technical Education (CTE), but some of the language he uses perpetuates the widespread misconception that CTE is a fancy term for "shop." When...Tags: Colleges and Universities, University of California, Berkeley
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Susan Ruth Doherty Hunt 1942 - 2013
Susan Ruth Doherty Hunt passed away on Tuesday, March 12th, at her home in Glendale of heart failure. Susan Doherty was born in 1942 in Hollywood to Norman and (Frances) Jean Doherty. She graduated from Occidental College where she met her husband Stephen...Tags: Heart Failure
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