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May 16, 2009 | Jason Song and Howard Blume
The head of the Los Angeles teachers union was among 39 people arrested Friday during a sit-in outside the school district headquarters, one among dozens of peaceful protests around the city by teachers and students outraged by plans for deep cuts in education spending. "Don't raise class size!" the protesters chanted before Los Angeles Police Department officers moved in to break up the demonstration. United Teachers Los Angeles President A.J.
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December 3, 2004 | Hector Becerra, Times Staff Writer
A series of violent confrontations over the last two weeks between black and Latino students at three South Los Angeles high schools has taken authorities by surprise, raising fears of widening clashes. Police and school officials have responded with stepped-up patrols in and around Crenshaw, Manual Arts and Jordan high schools.
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December 12, 2007 | Howard Blume and Duke Helfand, Times Staff Writers
The election Tuesday was unlike any other. At stake was no candidate, no law, no taxes, no bond issue -- only a promise by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to make seven Los Angeles schools a lot richer and a lot better. To vote, a participant didn't need to be a citizen. And some got more than one vote. And another oddity: There was no organized opposition.
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December 13, 2008 | SANDY BANKS
You can blame the failure of Los Angeles' latest school superintendent on racial politics, an incompetent school board or a bureaucracy impervious to reform. But you can't sell that to Stephen Strachan. Strachan is the principal at Jordan High in Watts. Like Supt. David Brewer, Strachan thinks big and is brimming with self-confidence. But unlike Brewer, Strachan has managed to move beyond summits and slogans to remake a high school long considered one of the district's worst.
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November 7, 2009 | SANDY BANKS
In last Saturday's column, I relied on teenagers at Richmond High to help me understand how gang rape became a spectator sport on their San Francisco Bay area campus. They explained that bystanders who watched the assault on a 15-year-old girl outside their homecoming dance last month may have been too afraid to intervene. Or they didn't feel compelled to help because the victim wasn't in their clique. Or they were simply paralyzed by shock, fixated as if the violent scene was a snippet from a reality TV show.
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April 26, 2008 | Mitchell Landsberg, Times Staff Writer
A survey of 6,008 South Los Angeles high school students shows that many are frightened by violence in school, deeply dissatisfied with their choices of college preparatory classes, and -- perhaps most striking -- exhibit symptoms of clinical depression. "A lot of students are depressed because of the conditions in their school," said Anna Exiga, a junior at Jordan High School who was one of the organizers of the survey.