January 3, 2013, 6:17 PM
Even as Los Angeles authorities continue efforts to reform school-discipline standards, fresh data show that police from the city’s biggest school district are continuing to ticket thousands of young students, especially minorities, at disproportionate rates that critics charge are putting...
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July 20, 2012, 12:05 AM
Update, July 20, 2012: This story updates with information about when the new BART policy changes would take effect. BART leaders have decided to alter the transit agency's free speech-related policy after discovering that a private school and church in West Oakland used unaccompanied...
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July 9, 2012, 12:05 AM
California Community College students who rack up more than 100 units or remain on probation for two semesters in a row will fall to the back of the line when enrolling for classes under a proposed policy up for discussion today by the Board of Governors.
Meanwhile, new students who have taken...
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July 21, 2011, 12:05 AM
This fall, Makayla Vigil will be a sophomore at Pleasant Valley High School in Chico. For most of her school career, she made the honor roll. But last semester, after her family lost their apartment, she earned C’s and D’s. “My grades did suffer a lot from just not caring,...
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