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U.S. Records 20 Million COVID-19 Cases As New Year Dawns
A somber new milestone marked the new year in the U.S. ― as of Friday, the country recorded more than 20 million COVID-19 cases since the coronavirus pandemic began early…
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Arbitrator Rules OUSD Violated Agreement to Support Students in Distance Learning, Orders Back Pay, Additional Support | Post News Group
In an opinion issued August 13, the arbitrator found that the district violated that M.O.U. by failing to assign the vast majority of substitute teachers who had applied or attempted to apply for those
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Derek Chauvin Found Guilty On All Charges In George Floyd's Death
The jury took roughly 10 hours to reach a verdict in the former Minneapolis police officer's high-profile trial.
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Emily C. Fennell Passes Away - Los Angeles Sentinel
Mrs. Emily Carole Chretién Fennell, a native Angeleno, died peacefully on March 3, in Orange Park, Florida after a prolonged illness. Mrs. Fennell was a reading specialist for decades with the Los Angeles Unified School District and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. The post Emily C. Fennel
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Racial justice public schools should be our new normal - TheGrio
Classrooms look different these days. Some are in person. Some are virtual. Some are hybrid. All in all, this is... View Article The post Racial justice public schools should be our new normal appeared first on TheGrio.
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South LA Dry Cleaner A Staple Of The Community For 7 Decades
… deal with the racism that African-Americans were facing in lending at …
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Coronavirus: LAUSD officials say lack of clear reopening guidance from state hampering negotiations | L.A. Focus News
With the deadline for applying for the state’s Safe Schools for All reopening grant a week away, Los Angeles Unified School District leaders are pressing state and county health officials for a clearer definition as to what constitutes a safe learning environment, saying the lack of consistent
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Case Of Highly Infectious Coronavirus Variant Reported In Hard-Hit Southern California
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A mutant variant of the coronavirus that appears to be more contagious has been found in Southern California, where the state’s most populous county recorded more…
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L.A. school board cuts its police force and diverts funds for Black student achievement - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
The Board of Education approved a plan that cuts a third of the officers with the Los Angeles School Police Department, bans the use of pepper spray on students and diverts funds from the department to improve the education of Black students.
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Trump's school reopening push a gamble aimed at White suburban voters - L.A. Focus Newspaper
Reopening them could allow parents to return to work, Trump's advisers reasoned. Without kids in classrooms, no other area of the economy could really bounce back. Anecdotally, many aides knew parents -- and especially moms -- who felt stretched by home-schooling and child
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School board weighs proposals for campus police
LOS ANGELES — Despite vocal public calls for defunding, the Los Angeles Unified School District school board rejected a proposal that would have slashed 90% of the School Police Department’s budget by
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Newsom: Get Vaxxed, Win $$ - Voice and Viewpoint
BY EMILY HOEVEN | CALMatters More money up for grabs Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday unveiled the country’s largest vaccine incentive program at a high school in Los Angeles — a city in which only 7% of high schoolers have returned for in-person learning — suggesting that he is once again marrying
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L.A. DIGEST: Museum to offer virtual tour of shuttle
EXPOSITION PARK — The California Science Center is launching virtual reality tours of Space Shuttle Endeavour May 15, giving the spacecraft a new mission: educating and entertaining those staying at
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Schools try pep-rally tactics to get students vaccinated - BNC
By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A growing number of public schools are using mascots, food trucks and prize giveaways to encourage students to get vaccinated before summer vacation. The massive effort to create a pep-rally atmosphere comes only weeks after the Pfizer coronavirus
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LAUSD may revisit social distancing policy, instructional schedules in future - L.A. Focus News
The Los Angeles Unified School District may change its policy on how spread apart students must remain in the classroom for the summer and fall - when on-campus activities are also likely to increase - Superintendent Austin Beutner said Tuesday, March 23, offering hope to parents who want the
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Chauvin Trial Shows Need for Broad Focus on Systemic Racism | Post News Group
Officer’s Conviction Necessary but Not Sufficient, Greenlining Institute Says The post Chauvin Trial Shows Need for Broad Focus on Systemic Racism first appeared on Post News Group.
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LAUSD has no timetable for reopening campuses -
LOS ANGELES — There is still no timetable on when Los Angeles Unified School District campuses may reopen due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the district may need to create a balance of online and in-person classes for the next academic year that starts Aug. 18. That was the word from Superintendent
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Hip Hop Icon Dr. Dre Opening the ‘Coolest High School in America’
Hip Hop and business icon Dr. Dre said he lasted just two weeks in a college program and believed that many young ones don’t want to attend school because it’s boring.
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Teacher vaccinations go untracked amid school reopening push - TheGrio
The national rush to vaccinate teachers in hopes of soon reopening pandemic-shuttered schools is running into one basic problem: Almost... View Article The post Teacher vaccinations go untracked amid school reopening push appeared first on TheGrio.
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LAUSD parents want special ed teachers – especially those eligible for vaccines – back on campus | L.A. Focus News
In the ongoing debate over how soon educators should return to in-person work, some Los Angeles Unified parents are fuming over the revelation that certain employees who work with special education students have been eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations since January but have yet to provide in-person
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Says Elite Beach Club Isn't All-White After All
The Rhode Island Democrat said he's been assured the club has nonwhite club members and that its improving diversity remains a priority.
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OG-SAN: Seat at the Table - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… and double the number of African Americans in the largest state of …
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Young Americans Are Lagging With Covid-19 Vaccines, Experts Pushing Them To Get Shots - The Seattle Medium
The United States has so far made significant progress in vaccinating adults. At least 25 states, plus Washington, DC, have now fully vaccinated at least half of their adult residents, data published Sunday by the CDC shows. But many experts have identified young Americans as a critical age group
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Prop. 22 battle reaches fever pitch - Black Voice News
Good morning, California. It's Friday, October 23. Court rules against Uber, Lyft Image via iStock The stakes in the battle over Prop. 22 just got a lot higher. Uber and Lyft must reclassify their independent contractor drivers as full-fledged employees by late January, a California appeals court
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Coronavirus: More than 10,200 LAUSD students choose independent study, won’t return to campus - L.A. Focus News
More than 10,200 Los Angeles Unified students had enrolled in the district’s independent study program for the upcoming school year as of Friday morning, Aug. 6 - a nearly eightfold increase in enrollment compared to before the coronavirus pandemic - according to a district spokeswoman. LAUSD
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Lawmakers to Newsom: Pay unemployment now - Black Voice News
Good morning, California. It’s Thursday, August 6. And overhaul entire department Assemblymember David Chiu speaks to the press on Sept. 11, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters California lawmakers are not impressed with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s attempts to address a massive backlog of claims
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LA County supervisor asks Newsom to reopen K-6 classrooms; CDC says schools needn’t wait for staff vaccines | L.A. Focus News
On the same day the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued school reopening guidance that indicated it’s OK for classrooms to reopen before educators have been vaccinated, L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom urging him to allow all elementary
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Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Recall Century-Old Horrors During Congressional Hearing
"I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street," said 107-year-old Viola Fletcher, who testified along with two other survivors of the 1921 attack.
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Pharmacist Accused Of Ruining Vaccine Doses Thought It Would Alter DNA, Prosecutor Says
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin pharmacist convinced the world was “crashing down” told police he tried to ruin hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine because he believed the shots…
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Healthcare providers pen open letter calling for schools in L.A. County to reopen | L.A. Focus News
About 200 healthcare professionals throughout Los Angeles County have joined a growing chorus of voices calling for schools to reopen, saying that there are ways for students and staff to return to campus safely while stressing the physical, mental and emotional harm of keeping students out of
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