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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Air monitoring near Huntington Beach landfill site to expand to 2 schools, park, city streets |
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Responding to community concerns about potential air pollution related to the ongoing cleanup of the Ascon landfill in Huntington Beach, project managers plan to expand an air-monitoring program beyond the site to include two nearby schools, a community park and two residential streets. Edison High borders the 38-acre former landfill at Hamilton Avenue and Magnolia Street. Eader Elementary is about a mile and a half away but parents have told city and school district officials that they are concerned that wind may carry dust and odors to the campus.
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-ascon-air-monitoring-20190712-story.html |
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LAUSD isn't properly keeping track of $1 billion for high-needs students, complaint alleges |
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The Los Angeles Unified School District is not giving the public enough information about how schools use more than $1 billion a year in state funding meant for high-needs students, according to a complaint filed Thursday with the California Department of Education. Districts receive extra money for each student who is low-income, an English learner or a foster youth. L.A. Unified is the state’s largest school district by far and most students fall into one of the three categories.
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https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-lausd-high-need-students-complaint-20190712-story.html |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Does California need a math tutor? Report finds students aren’t so great with numbers |
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California students might know their A-B-Cs, but they’re struggling with their 1-2-3s.
A July report from the Public Policy Institute of California found students throughout the state are making “significant progress” on English assessments, but experiencing “stalled gains” in mathematics. The institute found that third graders improved their English test scores by 10 percent since 2015 on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, and improved another 10 percent in their scores by sixth grade.
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article232606862.html#storylink=cpy |
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USA TODAY
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A California school board has voted to paint over a mural of George Washington. Educators want to save it |
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A California school board has voted on the fate of an expansive mural dedicated to the life of George Washington: It's demeaning – destroy it.
Hundreds of educators from the Golden State and beyond are urging board members to change their mind. Stretching 1,600 square feet, the 83-year-old mural at a public high school shows white colonists stepping over a dead Native American and slaves laboring at Washington's Mount Vernon estate.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/11/san-francisco-mural-academics-george-washington-history/1689543001/ |
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NEW YORK TIMES
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Team Sports May Help Children Deal With Trauma |
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Training, working hard and learning to win and lose help children develop resilience, experts say. In a study published in May in JAMA Pediatrics, people who had experienced traumatic events as children had better mental health outcomes as adults if they had participated in team sports during adolescence. Dr. Molly C. Easterlin, the lead author of the study, which looked at a national sample of 9,668 people, said, “Among children affected by adverse childhood experiences, team sports in adolescence was associated with less depression and anxiety in young adulthood.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/well/family/team-sports-may-help-children-deal-with-trauma.html |
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SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TRIBUNE
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Report: Mortgage payments are out of reach for those without an advanced degree |
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You don’t have to be rich to pay the median monthly mortgage payment in Los Angeles and Orange counties, but you’ll likely need a salary that only an advanced degree can provide. An analysis by Zillow shows a sharp contrast in affordability between the L.A./Orange counties region and the rest of the nation where a typical mortgage is affordable to high school graduates in 36 of the nation’s 50 largest metro areas.
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https://www.sgvtribune.com/2019/07/12/report-mortgage-payments-are-out-of-reach-for-those-without-an-advanced-degree/ |
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NPR
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States Are Ratcheting Up Reading Expectations For 3rd-Graders |
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Changes in education policy often emanate from the federal government. Think Common Core, the set of standards established in 2010 for what U.S. students should know. But one policy that has spread across the country came not from Washington, D.C., but from Florida. "Mandatory retention" requires that third-graders who do not show sufficient proficiency in reading repeat the grade. It was part of a broader packet of reforms proposed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in 2002.
Now 19 states have adopted the policy, in part because Bush has pushed hard for it.
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https://www.npr.org/2019/07/13/741156019/states-are-ratcheting-up-reading-expectations-for-3rd-graders |
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