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As many Southern California school districts lose students, an important debate about how to fund public schools is taking place below the radar. Most states use enrollment counts to fund public schools, but California uses average daily attendance, the average number of students attending each day. In 2024, Senate Bill 98 tasked the nonpartisan Legislative…
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By EDDIE PELLS Whether she is walking a fashion runway, amping herself up at the top of a mountain or digging into one of those physics lessons she takes “for fun,” Olympic champion Eileen Gu can probably boil down her main goals to these: Do her best. And bring as many people along for the…
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Rod Sherman no longer is the Orange Lutheran football head coach, the school announced Monday (Feb.2). Orange Lutheran said in a statement: “Effective today, Rod Sherman has concluded his tenure as Head Football Coach at Orange Lutheran High School. We are grateful for his five years of service and the contributions he made to the…
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By FERNANDA FIGUEROA Whether it’s on indoors halfpipes in New Jersey or the Rocky Mountains slopes of Colorado and Wyoming, there seems to be plenty of programs aimed at developing a diverse new generation of skiers, skaters and snowboarders. Yet that work is not often reflected with the athletes seen at the Winter Olympics. Related…
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There are some very smart people who believe that California has already fallen off the fiscal cliff and that it’s too far gone to be saved. A great deal of evidence supports that view. One need only read the alarming commentary from California’s Legislative Analyst to understand that our political leadership has led us into…
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By LUIS ANDRES HENAO, Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — In a church crowded to overcapacity, two-dozen faith leaders and their audience of hundreds sang and prayed together in unity Monday as a sign of support for Haitian migrants, some of whom fear their protected status in the United States may be ended this week.…
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By ALI SWENSON, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday announced that his department will devote $100 million toward a pilot program addressing homelessness and substance abuse in eight cities, building on an executive order President Donald Trump signed last week related to addiction. The U.S. Department of…
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By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and ALEXA ST. JOHN, Associated Press A federal judge on Monday ruled that an offshore wind project aimed at powering 600,000 New York homes can resume construction, the fifth such project put back on track after the Trump administration halted them in December. In clearing the way for Sunrise Wind to proceed,…
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When the 10 Freeway was completed in the 1950s it was then a marvel of high-speed travel for visitors heading across the Inland Empire to Los Angeles. But it had a significant negative effect of idling local tourist businesses along Route 66 — mostly Foothill Boulevard west from San Bernardino. The flow of visitors was…
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Extremely bad behavior has taken over the mainstage at South Coast Repertory with “God of Carnage,” a new mounting of a boisterous 20-year-old comedy of ill manners. Playwright Yasmina Reza’s middle-class cast of four brew, and gleefully quaff, an amoral spew of modern age self-preoccupation. A likeable quartet? Not remotely. But actors invested in squeezing…
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