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State's high school graduation rate up, dropout rate down
State officials Tuesday reported slight improvements in dropout and graduation rates and continued gains made by Latino and African American students. Overall, the state dropout rate declined by 1.5 percentage points to 13.2% for the class of 2012, when...
Tags: Social Issues
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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: University of California, Berkeley, Examinations, Politics, Graduation, Teachers
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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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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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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: University of California, Berkeley, Colleges and Universities
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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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Former Grant tennis coach Milt Nemiroff dies at 78
Varsity Times InsiderMilt Nemiroff, a member of the faculty at Van Nuys Grant when it opened in 1958 and the school's tennis coach for 33 years, died on Friday of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 78. His teams won 21 league...... -
L.A. Unified officials let abuse allegations slide, lawyers say
Incidents of alleged child abuse by a Newport Beach teacher at a Wilmington elementary school were known beyond a principal who was removed for failing to report them, a parent and attorneys who represent alleged victims said Thursday. The attorneys,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Sex Crimes, Justice System, Trials, Robert Pimentel
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Senior LAUSD officials knew of child abuse claims, lawyers say
L.A. NOWSenior LAUSD officials were allegedly aware of parent complaints in 2009 about a Wilmington teacher who was charged in January with abusing children over an extended period of time, say attorneys who represent alleged victims. The latest allegations... -
14-year-old girl dies after inhaling computer cleaner
L.A. NOWFriends and family are mourning a 14-year-old honor student who died after inhaling computer keyboard cleaner, authorities say. Aria Doherty, a student at Nobel Charter Middle School in Northridge, died at her at her home Monday of apparent cardiac... -
Wendy Greuel faces questions on pensions, labor support
Labor support and pensions for city workers continue to be a key issue in the Los Angeles mayoral contest, as Wendy Greuel faces fresh questions about her backing from public-employee unions and her stance on a City Council vote last year to trim...Tags: Carmen Trutanich, Paul Krekorian, Politics, Pension and Welfare, Paul Koretz
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