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Cindy Montaņez in City Council District 6
Just once, it would be nice to encounter a well-prepared grass-roots candidate for the Los Angeles City Council. There is no good reason that a neighborhood activist or business owner can't do some homework and come to a council race with a well-crafted,...
Tags: Paul Krekorian, Local Elections, Activism, Politics, Paul Koretz
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Letters: Thumbs up for iPads in schools
Re "iPads in school: toy or tool?," Column, April 28 As a 68-year-old man who reads your paper cover to cover every day, I have to say that Steve Lopez's skepticism about providing iPads to schoolchildren is misplaced. That I can now download books... -
L.A. mayoral candidates debate role of outside spending in elections
Mayoral rivals Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti squared off over the role of outside spending in Los Angeles elections during a debate Monday night in Westwood. Speaking before an audience of several hundred at Sinai Temple, Garcetti attacked Greuel for...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Career and Workplace, Politics, Unions, Primaries
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The messy complications of breakfast in the classroom
The Los Angeles Unified School District is in a period of tremendous upheaval that, it’s hoped, will result in better education for its students. With so much changing and so much at stake, of course there are more than a few daggers drawn. But when...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning, Students, Unions
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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: University of Michigan, Heart Attack, Freedom of the Press, Science and Technology, Hofstra University
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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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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: Dining and Drinking, Teaching and Learning, Restaurants, Tomatoes, Students
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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: Career and Workplace, Academic Progress, Teaching and Learning, Students, Politics
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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: Darrell Steinberg, Regional Authority, Government, Executive Branch, Economy, Business and Finance
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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: Teaching and Learning, Students, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights
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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: Government Postal Delivery, Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning, Pornography, Labor Legislation
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