students

May 25 2011

Girl hurt, suspect in custody

SAN PEDRO, Calif.—A bullet fired near San Pedro High School ricocheted off a wall and lodged in the leg of a 15-year-old girl today.

Police reportedly picked up a suspect in the shooting at 1001 W. 15th St. shortly after it occurred about 2:45 p.m.

The roughly 3,400 students at the school—the campus includes a middle school and high school—were held in classrooms until about 4 p.m.

Los Angeles Unified School District spokeswoman Susan Cox said the shot was believed to have been fired from off campus.

May 20 2011

In-home tutoring services branch aims to strengthen academic achievement in the Santa Clarita Valley

SANTA CLARITA, Calif.—With a depressed economy, a shortage of educational funds, overcrowded classrooms, and overwhelmed teachers, U.S. educational prospects have never looked bleaker. Add to this a large proportion of students already having trouble staying focused and keeping up, along with the many countries increasingly introducing better-educated, more highly trained, and cheaper workers into the job market. The result is a slowly tipping slide towards disaster.

Apr 18 2011

Record 61,515 applied

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—UCLA offered admission to 15,560 prospective freshman for fall 2011, out of a record 61,515 applicants, the university announced today.

Of the admitted applicants, 44.9 percent are Asian/Asian-American, 32.1 percent are white, 15.5 percent are Latino/Chicano, 3.4 percent are Black and 0.6 percent are Native American.

The prospective freshmen have an average GPA of 4.3.

Apr 13 2011

"Take Class Action: Demand Quality Education"

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Union-organized protests against budget cuts to the California State University system are planned for today at all of its campuses.

The aim of "Take Class Action: Demand Quality Education'' is "to bring greater public attention to what's going to happen to the CSU if we have a billion-dollar cut to the system,'' said Teri Yamada, president of the Cal State University Long Beach chapter of the California Faculty Association, the
union that represents the system's faculty and the event's organizer.

Mar 24 2011

New variations on "Revelations" taught

In anticipation of the upcoming April performance of the Alvin Ailey performances at the Los Angeles Music Center, students at the Lou Dantzler Preparatory Middle School and the Douglass Marshall Academy Middle School recently had an opportunity to participate in a residency workshop and learn movements to the company’s 50-year-old signature production “Revelations.” The residency was part of the Ailey in the Schools education program.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.