August 8, 2011, 12:05 AM
More than a dozen civil rights and education organizations are contending that the California Department of Education unlawfully stopped monitoring millions of dollars in funding for low-income and minority students. The Asian Pacific American Legal Center, along with other advocates, filed a...
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July 1, 2011, 12:05 AM
A state law requiring school districts to provide free, fresh drinking water to students during mealtime takes effect today, but it's unclear whether it will effectively discourage kids from choosing sugary drinks. The law allows school districts to opt out if they adopt a resolution...
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June 30, 2011, 12:05 AM
Civil rights attorneys are using a California election law to force school districts to make their boards more diverse. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, a San Francisco-based advocacy group, has been aggressively seeking city and district compliance with the California Voting...
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June 17, 2011, 12:05 AM
California school districts are using construction bond money to cover day-to-day operations and in other ways that regulators say misuse taxpayer money and violate state and federal law. In recent weeks, the state attorney general's office and county treasurers have issued warning letters...
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June 17, 2011, 12:05 AM
For the last three years, the Los Angeles Unified School District has been issuing multicolored, multilingual report cards on each of its hundreds of schools that is much easier to read than the often dense, multi-page School Accountability Report Cards mandated by the state. The...
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June 1, 2011, 12:05 AM
More than a third of teens in California do not participate in physical education at school, even though state law requires educators to provide a minimum amount, according to a new report. A study released yesterday by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that about 1.3 million...
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May 26, 2011, 12:05 AM
State officials voted yesterday to expand access to a $200 million fund created for urgent seismic repairs at California's public schools. The move came in response to complaints that restrictive rules created by the Schwarzenegger administration had blocked the funds from thousands of...
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May 18, 2011, 12:05 AM
Officials will review proposals today that would make it easier for schools with potentially dangerous buildings to qualify for seismic repair funds. Only 20 buildings are currently eligible, but the new proposals could give anywhere from 83 to 189 additional buildings access to a $200 million...
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April 27, 2011, 5:37 PM
State regulators will loosen the criteria for schools to access millions in unspent seismic repair funds and will require building inspectors to reveal whether they have been convicted of a crime before taking the state's certification test, officials said today. Scott Harvey, acting chief...
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April 13, 2011, 9:09 AM
State construction officials were ordered yesterday to examine ways to make it easier for schools with potentially dangerous buildings to qualify for seismic repair funds. Five years ago, voters approved nearly $200 million in bond funds for seismic repairs at thousands of school building...
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April 11, 2011, 5:01 PM
Korean: Lax oversight of school construction raises doubts about earthquake safety
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April 11, 2011, 5:00 PM
Chinese: Lax oversight of school construction raises doubts about earthquake safety
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April 11, 2011, 9:00 AM
Five years ago, California voters approved nearly $200 million in bonds to shore up the state's seismically unsafe school buildings. But the state has made it virtually impossible for districts to access.
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