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School Reform Bill on Fast-Track in Sacramento

Hosted by Warren Olney Aug. 24, 2006
School reform and political pressure...

Democratic leaders in Sacramento pushed ahrd today for Mayor Villaraigosa’s partial take-over of LA schools.  Will power-politics set back reform --instead of making things better?  Do all unionized teachers back the plan?  What about former Mayor Richard Riordan? Plus, the planet Pluto becomes a "dwarf."

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Pluto Demoted

Last year, astronomers at Cal Tech discovered an object they called Xena--even bigger than Pluto, and also orbiting around the Sun. That set off an astronomical...

6 min

School Reform Bill on Fast-Track in Sacramento

Mayor Villaraigosa says that dropout rates and low achievement show that the LA Unified School District is failing. He claims that the Mayors of New York, Chicago and Boston...

18 min

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Host:

Warren Olney

Producer:

Frances Anderton

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