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Los Angeles Unified School District

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Santa Ana Charter School Principal's Recent Leave of Absence Leaves Parents Concerned

    ​Concerned parents of students at a Santa Ana charter school received few answers about the principal's recent leave of absence when they met with school officials for two hours Monday afternoon.Kitty Fortner was placed on administrative leave from Edward B. Cole, Sr. Academy about three weeks ago ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Kids Hate Healthy School Lunches, Black Market for Junk Food Emerges in LA

    Flickr user woodleywonderworks​This year, the Los Angeles Unified School District changed the unchangeable. It made cafeteria lunches (gasp!) healthy. Out went chocolate milk, corn dogs, chicken nuggets and nachos. In came vegetarian curry, lentil and brown rice cutlets, quinoa and pad Thai.   ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Police Learn More About Mummified Woman

    ​Costa Mesa police detectives are learning more about the 59-year-old woman found in a mummified state in the front seat of a car blocking a driveway 10 days ago.Signe Margit possessed two master's degrees and had worked with special education students in Los Angeles County. She later filed for ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Ramona Ripston Retires as ACLU/SC Executive Director

    Ramona Ripston​Ramona Ripston, who has been executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California for 38 years, announced her retirement today."This organization has not only been my work but also my life for a long time, so a decision like this one certainly comes with m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Anonymous Man Sex Story Has an OC Twist

    ​Dave Wielenga wrote years ago about a police sting targeting man-on-man sex in the restroom at Estancia Adobe Park in Costa Mesa. Something similar just went down in the Los Angeles Harbor area and--wouldn't you know it?--one arrestee may very know the Orange County locale. After all, he was wear ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: Disappearing Comments Edition

    Not sure why, but when I sat down to write up this column today, all the comments on all the hot-button stories on the OC Register website appear to have been disabled. Could it be that the overworked censors on Grand Street just decided to hit the nuke button? Either that or my computer sucks, in w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2008

    Mexican Kids Hating Mexican Kids, And Why It's Okay

    La Opinión had a fascinating front-page piece yesterday about kiddies at Creek View Elementary School in Ontario regaling each other with a rhyme that translates as, "I don't want to go to Mexico ever again, again, again/Mexico stinks, stinks, stinks/There's a fat policeman at the door, door, door. ... More >>

  • News

    March 30, 2006

    The Gilchristification of OC

    Mondays student walkout shows the past aint dead. It isnt even passed

  • Unknown

    May 8, 2003

    Hidden Stash

    Mondays student walkout shows the past aint dead. It isnt even passed

  • Food

    August 15, 2002

    Royal Treatment

    Sweatin at the Khyber

  • News

    October 21, 1999

    Its a Gas, Gas, Gas

    LA controversy raises concerns about Brea-Olinda High Schools safety

  • Features

    September 2, 1999

    Out at School

    Good taste, wit, impeccable manners: Life at a gay high school

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    Learning Swerve

    LAUSD scandal spreads south

  • News

    December 24, 1998

    'Shadow of Suspicion'

    OC consultant figures prominently in state report blasting school projects

  • Features

    November 5, 1998

    Orange County's Scariest People!

    Hey! It really IS the Year of the Woman!

  • Columns

    October 8, 1998

    What Happened?

    Hey! It really IS the Year of the Woman!

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