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A Big Boost for Charter Schools - What About Mayor Villaraigosa?

Hosted by Warren Olney Jul. 09, 2007
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation put up almost eight million dollars today to create ten charter schools to replace Locke High. Mayor Villaraigosa won’t be directly involved and when he showed up at the announcement, was swamped with questions about his personal life.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation put up almost eight million dollars today to create ten charter schools to replace Locke High. Mayor Villaraigosa won’t be directly involved and when he showed up at the announcement, was swamped with questions about his personal life.

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Locke High and Green Dot Receive Millions From Gates Foundation

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given Green Dot Charter schools 7.8 million dollars to divide Locke High , with it's three-thousand students, into ten...

19 min

Update on Orange County Bus Strike

Only a third of Orange County’s public transit system is up and running due to a strike by transportation workers. Gwendolyn Driscoll reports for the Orange County Register.

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