Citing research and experience in other locations, the Los Angeles Unified School District Tuesday approved a new small schools policy that is being called historic and exciting and what it will take to change the educational path for many students in the nation’s second largest public school system.

The policy authored by School Board Vice President Yolie Flores Aguilar and co-sponsor by Board President Monica Garcia, and Board Member Richard Vladovic, is designed to transform the majority of the district into small schools by the year 2020.

Apparently shopping comes with a high price in the City of Carson-a very smelly one. An agreement involving contractor Javier Weckman and the city’s redevelopment agency which was approved by the Carson City Council in 2006 is now being put into action. The arrangement will allow construction crews to turn a former Carson City dump into a shopping center.