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In the year of the improbable, the impossible has happened: David Ryu became L.A.'s first Korean American and second Asian American to be elected to the city council.
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In the charter-versus-public schools fight, I'm firmly on the side of public schools. But in Los Angeles and everywhere else, we really shouldn't be having this fight at all.
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Data is everywhere but how does an individual or company use it to their benefit. A group of UCLA and LAUSD educators are using an innovative "real life" approach with high school students to teach them how to crunch that data, analyse it and create me...
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Can you imagine an ideal space along the L.A. River that's inspiring and inclusive for humans, native plants and animals? A class of third grade students were given that challenge and recently presented their preliminary ideas.
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How do you play the L.A. River at Rattlesnake Park?
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This week L.A. Letters shares some of the observations, insights, and research generated by our students from the "L.A. Stories" class at Woodbury University.
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Underneath it is a deeper question about why, in a country predicated on the pursuit of happiness, black men and happiness feels like such a contradiction.
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KCETLink Youth Voices participant, Justin writes a personal account of his struggle with depression and why he searched for help.
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KCETLink Youth Voices participant, Justine writes a personal account of her struggle with depression and her reasons to seek help.
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In association with their project Love is Respect El Monte, students at Arroyo High School interviewed their school Psychologist -- Timothy Castañeda. During the interview, Mr. Castañeda spoke with the student reporters about his role as a mental hea...
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With new discussions regarding the possible conversion of the Orange Line to rail, today serves as the perfect opportunity to examine the city's recent bus history, the attitudes that underlie bus transit, and its present and future.
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Local Control Funding Formula. The term sounds so abstract that it can be difficult to imagine how it would directly impact the lives of millions of K-12 students throughout the State of California.
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