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		<title>The Inalienable Right to Call School Officials &#8220;Douchebags&#8221; &amp; Other Must Reads</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/education/2011/admin/the-inalienable-right-to-call-school-officials-douchebags-other-must-reads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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SCOTUS REVIEW IS SOUGHT FOR  2 ONLINE FREE SPEECH CASES, ONE INVOLVING STUDENTS AND &#8220;DOUCHEBAGS&#8221;
(Yes, you&#8217;re right, my inner 9-year-old does think it&#8217;s funny each time I type the word &#8220;douchebag.&#8221;)
Ahem&#8230;
The Student Press Law Center  reports that the lawyers for two cases that involve online communication by students, and First Amendment rights, hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAPPL Predictibly Opposes Measure L &amp; OC DA Criminalizes Campus Protest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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TWO WRONG-HEADED DECISIONS THAT ASK FOR OUR ATTENTION
THE POLICE UNION Vs. THE LA PUBLIC LIBRARIES
I wish this was not grindingly predictable that the LAPD&#8217;s union, the LAPPL, would come out against Measure L, the item on the March 8 ballot that would set aside funding for the Los Angeles Public Library system.
In a statement put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idiotic PC-ness versus Mark Twain, History, Literature and Intelligent Discourse</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2011/admin/idiotic-pc-ness-versus-mark-twain-history-literature-and-intelligent-discourse/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/freedom-of-information/2011/admin/idiotic-pc-ness-versus-mark-twain-history-literature-and-intelligent-discourse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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If I had to choose one novel above all others to represent the glories of American literature it would be The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  It&#8217;s not perfect.  Many critics, myself included, believe that Twain stumbles slightly when he reintroduces Tom Sawyer in the last quarter of the book.  But, like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ALA&#8217;s List of Top 10 Most Challenged Books (OMG!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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For the past 20 years, the American Library Association has collected reports of  book challenges in the US. 
 A &#8220;challenge,&#8221; in ALA parlance means &#8220;a formal, written complaint, filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed or restricted because of content or appropriateness.&#8221;
The ALA has just released its list of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The UC Strike&#8230;.and a Teachable Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Today, Thursday, September 24, is the first day of classes for nearly all University of California students. (UC Berkeley for some reason started earlier.)
It is also the day of a system-wide strike in which a great many faculty, students and UC staff plan to walk out in order to protest a bunch of the policies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Lopez, LA City College and &#8220;Free Speech 101&#8243;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In this morning&#8217;s editorial the LA Times says, at a bit more length, what we said a week ago about the case of the the speech making class at LACC, the Christian student, Jonathan Lopez, and the idiot teacher who tried to shut Lopez up. 
Here&#8217;s a clip or two:
If Lopez&#8217;s claims &#8211; including allegations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Green Dot Schools Among US News&#8217; 100 Best</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/education/2008/admin/two-green-dot-schools-among-us-news-100-best/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The US News and World Report has announced their 2009 list of America&#8217;s 100 best high schools.
In the article, which may be found here, the magazine tells how&#8212;together with their project partner School Matters&#8212; they evaluated a total of 21,069 public high schools , out of which 1,925 were recognized for considerably outperforming their state&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cut Education, Wound the Economy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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Two thousand students, administrators and education advocates gathered at Cal State Long Beach on Wednesday afternoon to send a message to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that the proposed $313 million dollar cut out of the California State University system will not only do harm to students, but it will have an adverse affect on the economy.

Among [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Return of the Chemerinski</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/education/2007/admin/the-return-of-the-chemerinski/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/education/2007/admin/the-return-of-the-chemerinski/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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Deals have been struck.  Kisses have been exchanged.  Troths have been plighted.  Mutual non-proliferation treaties have been signed.  Drake and Chemerinksy are NBFs, reports the LA Times.   

Drake traveled over the weekend to Durham, N.C., where Chemerinsky is a professor at Duke University, and the two reached an agreement [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Chemerinsky, Part 3:  Wheeling, Dealing&#8230;.and Fact Checking</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/education/2007/admin/chemerinsky-part-3-wheeling-dealingand-fact-checking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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More comes out about the behind the scenes wheeling and dealing to get Chemerinsky dumped, courtesy of the LA Times and the SF Chron.
Making Chemerinsky the head of the law school &#8220;would be like appointing al-Qaida in charge of homeland security,&#8221; Michael Antonovich, a longtime Republican member of the county Board of Supervisors, said in [...]]]></description>
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