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August 25, 1999 | KAREN ALEXANDER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Whether a child is dreading the end of summer or counting the days until he or she can return to the classroom, one thing about the back to school season is certain: Parents are going to be shopping. Clothes, lunch boxes, gym shorts, No. 2 pencils and book bags aside, this year parents are finding the return to school potentially more hectic--and expensive--than ever as schools lean increasingly on families for the everyday supplies that keep a classroom running.
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June 25, 1997 | TINA NGUYEN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
While the majority of Orange County's students started summer vacation this week, Thomas Jefferson fourth-grader Aracely Sigala headed back to the classroom Tuesday--along with thousands of other students attending year-round schools. "I keep telling myself school is fun," the giggly 9-year-old Anaheim girl said, adding that it can be hard to focus on school while her friends are hitting the beaches or Disneyland.
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October 14, 1998 | TINA NGUYEN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
It's a month into the academic year, and some Orange County school districts are starting to shuffle students and place them into bilingual classrooms to accommodate parents' requests for native-language instruction. Despite voters' overwhelming passage of Proposition 227, which promotes English-only instruction, primary-language programs can be resurrected if the district is willing and there is widespread parent interest. The response by parents countywide has been decidedly mixed.
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December 14, 1998 | LIZ SEYMOUR and TINA NGUYEN and LINN GROVES, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The outside world could come charging through the security gates of Coto de Caza in the shape of 20 modular classrooms for a new public school that could open as early as next year. But the preliminary plans to install the newest campus in the Capistrano Unified School District have drawn attacks both from residents, who say it would undermine the privacy and security of the private foothill enclave, and outsiders who say putting a public school there could be downright illegal.
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October 17, 1997 | JEFF KASS
Pushed to the edge by hot weather, four Santa Ana Valley High School teachers this week spoke out against the school district's recently enacted dress code for teachers, and presented trustees with a petition. In June, trustees of the Santa Ana Unified School District passed a dress code that included ties for men and prohibited sandals. The Valley High teachers attended Tuesday's school board meeting to say that the policy was unfairly enacted, because teachers were not consulted.
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August 16, 1999 | James Meier, (714) 966-5988
The Centralia School District will begin a two-week "Kindergarten Jump Start" program Tuesday that aims to introduce incoming kindergartners and their parents to the classroom setting, schedules, procedures and curriculum. Its purpose is to prepare children for learning, said Bobbi Mahler, assistant superintendent of instruction. The district invited more than 200 children and their parents from Buena Park, Anaheim and La Palma to join the program, which lasts two hours per day.