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Updated: 1 hour 27 min ago Students take a step for safety in surveying their walks to schoolGarfield Elementary pupils note broken sidewalks, speeding motorists and other hazards in hopes that Santa Ana will correct them.
On the first day of class, Chris Marx asks his fifth-grade students how they get to school and what they encounter along the way. California boarding schools? It's not an oxymoronLong a fixture of the East Coast, such campuses are gaining interest in the Golden State.
As a young woman living in Southern California, Kelly Boss never thought much about boarding schools. They were a mystery or at most a cinematic fancy embodied by Brookfield of "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" or the Welton Academy of "Dead Poets Society." L.A. Unified must start over on Maywood school plansThe district abandons its preferred site for a new high school, citing heavy contamination that would cost at least $22 million to clean up.
Los Angeles school officials are starting over on a high school project in Maywood because the preferred site is so contaminated by industrial chemicals that it would cost at least $22 million to clean up, which would delay construction by as much as six years. Bolshoi Ballet Academy gives young dancer the chance of a lifetimeIt's a long way from San Bernardino to Moscow, but Matthew Leonardi, 14, is making the leap.
In his tough San Bernardino neighborhood, Matthew Leonardi doesn't talk much of his graceful pirouettes or evenings spent dancing with girls in pink tutus. Opposition party in Egypt faces dissent from withinYoung members argue against religious rigidity in the Muslim Brotherhood, openly criticizing the group in their blogs.
He was a boy in the mosques of Alexandria when the Muslim Brotherhood took him into its fold, inviting him to soccer matches and trips to the seaside. |
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