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	<title>WitnessLA.com &#187; academic freedom</title>
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		<title>Saving &#8220;LA Youth&#8221;&#8212;The Nation&#8217;s Largest Youth Newspaper Needs Help ASAP</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/media/2012/admin/saving-la-youth-the-nations-largest-youth-newspaper-needs-help-asap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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We want our kids to be informed, thinking, confident compassionate, educated people, such a goal is in everyone&#8217;s interest, for heaven&#8217;s sake,  and yet increasingly, as the economy continues to wobble, the commitment to this obviously worthy goal on the part of those with resources seems to be faltering.  
It doesn&#8217;t help that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Inalienable Right to Call School Officials &#8220;Douchebags&#8221; &amp; Other Must Reads</title>
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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>
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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[academic freedom]]></category>
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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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		<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>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/education/2008/admin/two-green-dot-schools-among-us-news-100-best/</link>
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		<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>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/education/2008/admin/cut-education-wound-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/education/2008/admin/cut-education-wound-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>The Return of the Chemerinski</title>
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		<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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