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California: Steinberg to introduce bill for online class college credit

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State Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) plans to introduce a bill Wednesday that would create a framework to allow students at California’s public colleges and universities to receive credit for some online courses. The bill takes aim at the chronic problem of over-enrollment in core classes at the community college, CSU and UC level, according to Steinberg’s spokesman, Rhys Williams.

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College leaders urged to make personal commitment to student success

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College presidents must take a more personal role in changing campus culture to ensure that more students graduate, a group of higher education leaders meeting in Los Angeles were told Monday. “Presidents focus on the inflow but don’t pay too much attention to what’s happening on the back end,” said Andrew K. Benton, president of Pepperdine University.

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L.A. schools Supt. Deasy, 4 predecessors named in Miramonte lawsuit

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Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy and four predecessors were named in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that alleges they intentionally did not report complaints of suspected teacher abuse. The lawsuit alleges that the superintendents created an environment in which administrators were advised to dismiss complaints of misconduct, shielded teachers from scrutiny and kept allegations from being reported to state authorities and law enforcement.

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Latino kids disproportionately victimized by teachers, lawyer says

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A former state senator called Monday for an investigation into what she said was a disproportionately large number of Latino students believed to have been victimized by teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

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1,000 campus aides will be added to LAUSD elementary schools

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The Los Angeles Unified School District plans to hire more than 1,000 campus aides to help boost security at elementary schools, a $4.2-million plan that will more than double the number of assistants employed by the district.

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California: State legislators seek crackdown on expensive form of school finance

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Two state lawmakers moved on Friday to crack down on a costly method of finance that hundreds of school districts have been relying on to pay for new construction.

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Los Angeles teachers union approves use of testing data in evaluations

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A landmark agreement to use student test scores for the first time to evaluate Los Angeles Unified instructors was approved by the teachers union Saturday. United Teachers Los Angeles reported that 66% of 16,892 members who voted approved the agreement with the nation’s second-largest school district. L.A. now joins Chicago, New York and many other cities in using testing data as one measure of a teacher’s effect on student academic progress.

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Rankings of online college and graduate programs released

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Reflecting growing interest in -- or at least curiosity about -- online education, U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday released its first rankings of fully online college and graduate degree programs. The magazine has for decades ranked more traditional brick-and-mortar higher education campuses.

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College admission may get easier as ranks of high school graduates drop

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High school graduates will face less competition for college admission in the next decade due to a demographic decline in their ranks, according to a report on education enrollment trends released Wednesday. At the same time, Latinos and Asian Americans will constitute larger shares of high school populations and the numbers of white and black students will drop.

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Conference about online education attracts major players to UCLA

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A national conference at UCLA on the future of online college education attracted some of the biggest names in the industry Tuesday, as well as politicians and faculty leaders from state universities.

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'California Schools Rule,' according to Kiplinger rankings

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Eleven California universities were among the top 100 “best-value” public colleges ranked by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance in a 2013. UCLA led the way for California coming, in at No. 6 in the annual rankings – but the Westside school was not alone. UC Berkeley and UC San Diego also cracked Kiplinger’s top 10, while six University of California schools were ranked in the magazine’s top 25 and a total of eight UC schools landed in the top 100.

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Los Angeles nonprofit receives $30 million from U.S. Department of Education

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A Los Angeles-area nonprofit that provides education services to low-income families and poverty-stricken communities received a $30-million grant from the U.S. Department of Education on Friday. The Youth Policy Institute is one of seven agencies in the nation to be awarded a Promise Neighborhood grant, implemented in 2010 by President Obama, and will receive $6 million every year for five years.

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Schools face more penalties as feds reject California waiver

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Federal officials have rejected California’s request for exemption from rules that penalize low-performing schools and school districts, state officials announced Friday. The state’s failure to win a “waiver” from the No Child Left Behind law was not entirely a surprise, but was still unwelcome news to officials.

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California: Adult education in need of overhaul, state says

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California’s system of adult education is complex, confusing and in need of a major overhaul if it is to serve the 1.5 million students seeking instruction, the state Legislative Analyst’s Office said in a new report.

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Only 31% of California students are physically fit

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For the second year in a row, California students have tested relatively low in a series of statewide physical fitness tests, the state Department of Education announced Thursday.

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