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		<title>Jerry Brown Education Proposals &#8211; A path to disaster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I try to stay as neutral as possible on WestchesterParents there are times when I have to call people out when they offer a policy plan that flies in the face in reality.  Particularly in the case of education which I often write about and especially when it comes from a candidate for governor who is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westchesterparents.org/?p=2787</link>
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		<title>Stonebird &#8211; W/PdR&#8217;s Most Comprehensive Wildlife Catalog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Coffin started out with a borrowed Sony digital camera that used 3.5&#8243; diskettes (remember those?) for storing images and over the last four years he has compiled the most comprehensive catalog of birds, bugs, mammals, lizards, and plants in the Ballona area. Since then, Coffin has moved on to better devices to capture over 2,500 exquisite images of local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westchesterparents.org/?p=2740</link>
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		<title>Bradford’s misplaced priorities (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A spirited defense of Assemblyman Steve Bradford’s (D) Limousine Legislation by Jenny M. appeared in our comments section in Part 1 but it was her initial comment on the state of education (the main point of the article) that was worth a column in itself. Part 2&#8230;. (Jenny M.) Unfortunately you cannot legislate students to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westchesterparents.org/?p=2729</link>
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		<title>Bradford&#8217;s misplaced priorities (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[30  to 60 percent of the high school students in Bradford&#8217;s assembly district are dropping out and one of his first pieces of legislation is AB 2572 to regulate limousines going in and out of the airport????  Where are his priorities? Your vote has value. What do you value most?]]></description>
		<link>http://westchesterparents.org/?p=2723</link>
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		<title>Prop 18 &#8211; Zero Chance of Fixing CA Water Woes and a Big Price Tag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Voters will be asked to approve a new $11.4 billion water bond that promises to increase develop more reliable water supplies and increase local water supplies. (Los Angeles Times 6/20/2010)&#8221; Time for a Sanity check&#8230; Going back to 1996 there have been 6 voter approved bond measures amounting to $16.6 BILLION that promised to resolve future [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westchesterparents.org/?p=2653</link>
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		<title>Measure E is NO Bargain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This schools tax is a bargain&#8221; writes LA Times columnist Steve Lopez on Measure E. &#8220;For just $8.33 per household a month, voters could save hundreds of L.A. Unified teachers&#8217; jobs and help preserve arts education in elementary schools&#8221; This familiar refrain has been used over and over again on previous LAUSD ballot measures: In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westchesterparents.org/?p=2629</link>
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		<title>LA&#8217;s Caregivers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s caregiver Today&#8217;s caregiver No, L.A. should NOT grandfather in existing medical marijuana dispensaries. In fact, marijuana should not be dispensed unless it is prescribed by licensed professional doctors, dispensed in a licensed pharmacy by licensed professional pharmacists. Ref: Daily News article.]]></description>
		<link>http://westchesterparents.org/?p=2596</link>
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		<title>L.A.&#8217;s Going Broke over Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not enough money for schools. Not enough money for police, or librarians or park staff. Not enough money for street and sidewalk repairs. L.A.’s residents are seeing important services being cut back. The city is hundreds of millions of dollars behind, soon to be billions and the city employees are facing layoffs and dozens of furlough days in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westchesterparents.org/?p=2570</link>
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		<title>Time to rally behind REAL school choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday April 6th, LAUSD school board members Steve Zimmer and Tamar Galatzan will be proposing a compromise resolution to the school board to allow students already permiting out into neighboring school districts to remain there until they graduate.  The meeting will be held at 1PM at 333 S. Beaudry Ave., Board Rm on 1st Floor, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westchesterparents.org/?p=2538</link>
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		<title>Cortines pulls the trigger on transfer students.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LAUSD TO DENY QUALITY EDUCATION TO STUDENTS. Join the Facebook group  Stop LAUSD from denying permits In a press release announced today, [Daily Breeze story] LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines pulled the trigger on intra-district transfers for families seeking quality schools.  No new out of district permits and students on existing permits will have them denied next year. [See Cortines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://westchesterparents.org/?p=2472</link>
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