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Rishonda Napier making instant impact
Keeping tabs on local athletes competing in college. Rishonda Napier (Bellarmine-Jefferson High), freshman, guard, Southern Illinois women’s basketball): The former Guards star has been getting playing time out of the gate in her first season on...
Tags: University of California, Irvine, Pacific Tigers, College Basketball, Basketball, Teaching and Learning
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Providence hoop transfer ruled ineligible
Melik Anderson, a 6-foot-7 sophomore boys' basketball player who transferred to Providence High after playing as a freshman last season at Alemany, has been ruled ineligible by the CIF Southern Section, Pioneers Athletic Director Andrew Bencze said...Tags: Basketball, Teaching and Learning, College Sports, Sports, California Interscholastic Federation
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Burbank Unified reviews head lice policy
Burbank Unified is reviewing its head lice policy after a mother appealed to the school board for more conservative rules, especially as class sizes get bigger and more students are crowded together. Under the district’s current policy, students...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Safety at School, Teaching and Learning
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Burbank Unified Teacher of the Year: 'I think forever I wanted to be a teacher'
It takes Dorothy Hernandez at least five minutes to walk through Washington Elementary’s school yard to reach Room 29 where she teaches third grade. In what would normally be a two-minute walk, the delay is in all the students lining up for hugs...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teachers
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On the Town: PTA and Booster Club partner for fall fun
With fall officially in full swing, members of the Parent Teachers Assn. and Booster Club of Burbank's Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School welcomed the season with their annual Fall Festival Picnic fundraiser last week. Transforming the grounds of the...
Tags: Rey Sanchez, Tim Conway, Entertainment, Theodore Roosevelt, Entertainment Events
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Burbank Unified improves its API standing
Burbank Unified improved its overall score on the all-important state index that measures student achievement, according to data released Wednesday. The district’s overall score on the Academic Performance Index improved by 13 points to 846 —...Tags: School Examinations, Teaching and Learning
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Burbank's super Hooper
Katie Hooper has produced an impressive track record at Burbank High over the course of the last four years. When a team has Hooper on its roster, success seems assured. During her freshman and sophomore seasons, Hooper was the starting goalkeeper for...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Baseball, College Sports, Softball, Sarah Brown
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Schools adjust menus for health
As new federal laws mandate more fruits and vegetables in school lunches, cafeterias in Glendale and Burbank are making adjustments to their menus. The transition, they say, has been fairly smooth. Two years after the Healthy, Hunger-Free Eating Kids...
Tags: Teaching and Learning
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Green Party candidate: 'It's time to bail out the students'
Offering what she called a “green New Deal,” Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein delivered a speech Thursday at Woodbury University in Burbank that focused on jobs, education and the economy. While President Franklin D....
Tags: Parties and Movements, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Business, Child Development, Jill Stein
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Burbank school celebrates Literature Week with a reading marathon
Parents, community members and school district officials descended on Providencia Elementary to read books to students for more than an hour Friday morning. The 20th annual tradition brought nearly 60 volunteers to the campus to read to students in...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Arts and Culture
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Burbank teachers get anti-bullying training
Students snickering at their gay classmates. Others picking on students with special needs. Shoving. Racially charged jokes. One by one, teachers at an anti-bullying training session in Burbank this week raised their hands to relay stories of their own...Tags: Labor Legislation, Health and Safety at School, Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace, Racism
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AP classes about more than scores
Even if not every student passed the Advanced Placement exam, merely being exposed to the more rigorous course work leading up to the exam makes students stronger in the long run, Burbank Unified officials say. “The rigor is there. It gets them to...Tags: Teaching and Learning
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