Which Way, L.A.?
School Reform Bill on Fast-Track in Sacramento
School reform and political pressure...
By Warren Olney • • 30m ListenDemocratic 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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2 storiesSchool 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 have demonstrated that accountability in just one elected official can put public schools on the road to reform and improvement.
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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 controversy. Are there really 10 planets? Today, the International Astronomical Union said, "No." Xena isn't a planet at all, and neither is Pluto.
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