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Nov 10 2010

Board approved hike despite protests

LONG BEACH, Calif.—The California State University Board of Trustees today approved a 5 percent mid-year tuition increase and a 10 percent hike for the 2011-12 academic year.

The board's Finance Committee approved the tuition hikes Tuesday during a meeting in Long Beach.

Marisol Aguilar  |   OW Contributor
Oct 28 2010

Focusing on eliminating differences

The Palmdale School District is hosting the second annual Bridging the Achievement Gap Conference Nov. 6 at the Palmdale Learning Plaza to give parents, educators, administrators and community members valuable strategies to help close the persisting achievement gap.

“[The goal of the conference] is to give teachers and parents strategies to help students who are having a difficult time in the classroom. This is a state and nationwide issue,” said Jezelle Fullwood event coordinator.

Cynthia E. Griffin-  |   OW Managing Editor
Oct 21 2010

Many groups target same goal

Black students in Los Angeles are struggling to improve their academic achievement, and there are a number of efforts under way to provide the resources needed to help them succeed.
One such effort is being pushed by Los Angeles Unified School Director Board of Education member Marguerite LaMotte and the others comes from the Coalition for Black Student Equity and the African American Education Alliance.

Marisol Aguilar  |   OW Contributor
Oct 14 2010

Exemptions that may save you a little cash

Some students often complain that their pay is not enough, while others complain that the taxes withheld from their pay is a problem that leaves them living paycheck to paycheck.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offers a few exemptions to qualified students that could add a little more money to paychecks.

Marisol Aguilar  |   OW Contributor
Oct 7 2010

Film pushes for charter schools

“Waiting for Superman” is a documentary by Davis Guggenheim, director of “An Inconvenient Truth,” that focuses on the deteriorating public school system.

Guggenheim’s film follows five optimistic children and their families (that he selected from across the country), who hope to win the lottery—the charter school lottery that is.

Charter schools are portrayed as the possible saviors of these five children. However, there are not many available seats for all the applicants, and only a few lucky ones will win the game.

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.