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The Top 10 sports stories of 2012 as chosen by The Burbank Leader
Throughout the past year, the local community experienced its share of important, interesting and significant sports stories. Some of the stories enlightened us, some informed us and others just entertained us. Although many of the stories deserve...
Tags: College Football, College Basketball, World Series, San Francisco Giants, Manny Acosta
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Short game, long day for Bell-Jeff girls' soccer
Trailing by eight goals in the second half with little chance to winning the match, the players from the Bellarmine-Jefferson High girls’ soccer team didn’t want to give up. Even when they were told they would have to. The Guards had...Tags: Sports, Teaching and Learning, Soccer
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Burbank schools get grants for arts programs
Burbank Arts For All recently awarded thousands of dollars worth of grants to local schools, but with more than 30 applicants, demand far outstripped available money. In all, 31 Burbank schools sent in grant applications totaling $85,565, but in the...
Tags: Government Debt, Budgets and Budgeting, Arts and Culture, The Getty, Teaching and Learning
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Actor to deaf Burbank students: 'If someone says no, move on to the next yes'
Bob Hiltermann was four years old when he lost his hearing to spinal meningitis, but another six years would pass before anyone around him would discover he was deaf. He was 10 when a teacher debunked his family’s assumption that he was “...
Tags: Hearing Impairment, High Schools, Schools, Meningitis, Teaching and Learning
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Hoping to maintain success in girls' basketball
It was a wildly successful and historic 2011-12 girls' basketball season for the four city teams. Not only did Burroughs High, Burbank, Providence and Bellarmine-Jefferson all qualify for the CIF Southern Section playoffs, but the Pioneers and Guards...
Tags: Minor League Baseball, Basketball, Sports, Teaching and Learning, California Interscholastic Federation
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The high cost of sending students outdoors
In Burbank, many fifth-graders live for Outdoor Science School — the handful of days when they venture to the mountains or ocean to hike trails with naturalists, sing songs by the campfire and sleep in bunks. The tradition has lasted more than 20...Tags: Public Finance, Politics, Teaching and Learning, Economy, Business and Finance, American Civil Liberties Union
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Bilingual education speaks to the future
Public education has changed drastically. Technology, specialized magnet campuses, charter schools, the importance of Advanced Placement courses and standardized student tests — if you graduated even 10 years ago, odds are, you wouldn't recognize...Tags: Charter Schools, Teaching and Learning, Education, School Examinations
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Local boys' basketball teams ready to make mark on court
Each of the four local boys’ basketball teams lost key players to graduation or had individuals transfer. However, no other squad was been more depleted than Burbank High. The Bulldogs lost 11 seniors to graduation after last season and had just...
Tags: College Basketball, Basketball, Sports, Teaching and Learning, Injuries and Wounds
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Teams looking to fill positions
After a second-place finish last season in the Pacific League, the Burroughs High boys' soccer team lost a large group of players to graduation. The biggest loss was midfielder Francisco Baez, and All-CIF Southern Section Division III first-team...Tags: Sports, Teaching and Learning, Soccer, College Sports
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Boys' soccer teams looking to fill positions
After a second-place finish last season in the Pacific League, the Burroughs High boys’ soccer team lost a large group of players to graduation. The biggest loss was midfielder Francisco Baez, and All-CIF Southern Section Division III first-team...
Tags: Sports, Teaching and Learning, Soccer, California Interscholastic Federation, College Sports
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At Burbank elementary school, students pick their sides in USC v. UCLA
McKinley Elementary students on Monday competed against each other as either USC or UCLA patriots during the school’s annual Rivalry Day, capping a month college-related activities. At the start of November, students wore logos of any college...
Tags: Schools, Elementary Schools, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Education
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Burbank Unified moves toward dual-language learning
Burbank Unified is moving to join the growing trend of dual-language education — a system that in neighboring Glendale has spread like wildfire as parents eagerly sign their students up to be fluent in one of six languages by the time they...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, Language
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