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	<title>WitnessLA.com &#187; California budget</title>
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		<title>Predictive Policing:  Good Idea or Bad idea?</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2011/admin/predictive-policing-good-idea-or-bad-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Wednesday, Larry Mantle&#8217;s AirTalk on KPCC focused on a new strategy that the LAPD plans to take for a test drive as a experimental program.  The strategy is called predictive policing and it is already being   tried out by the Santa Cruz PD, reportedly with some success.  Now Los Angeles wants [...]]]></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>Friday Round-Up: Psychopaths, Parks Closing, Bad DA Behavior and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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EVEN DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, CALIFORNIA KEPT ITS PARKS OPEN, BUT ALL THAT CHANGES IN SEPTEMBER
Speaking personally, I am still having a hard time believing that the state&#8217;s scheduled parks closure will truly occur, but Timothy Egan&#8217;s NY Times Op-ed brings home the mind-numbing reality that California may really shutter some of its most irreplaceable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CA Schools Are Broke, But Private Prison Operators Announce Record Profits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 07:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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PRISON INDUSTRIAL NATION?
The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)&#8212;the nation&#8217;s largest private prison provider&#8212;announced some very healthy first quarter profits on Wednesday. 
(Second quarter is expected to be higher.)

MEANWHILE&#8230;LAUSD TELLS TEACHERS TO TAKE DAY OFF AND PROTEST
GOOD Magazine has the story.  Here&#8217;s a clip:
Just how bad is California&#8217;s education budget crisis? In an unprecedented move, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday&#8217;s Must Reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California budget]]></category>

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THE REAL COST OF CALIFORNIA&#8217;S BUDGET CUTS:  WHO IS HARDEST HIT?
Annenberg&#8217;s Neon Tommy has begun a series on the specific effects of some of the California state budget It offers precisely the kind of reporting we need in order to  assess what the state&#8217;s proposed budget cuts specifically in human terms.
For instance, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pew Recidivism Report: How CA Can Cut $233 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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This week the Pew Center on the States delivered another of its large and important reports on the state of incarceration in America.  
it&#8217;s called State of Recidivism:  The Revolving Door of American Prisons.  
(In the past, the Pew Center has looked at how many Americans are behind bars, and who those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Talks Collapse Causing Terrible Cuts to Community Colleges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The California budget situation is anything but easy.  Yet, at least we finally have a clear-eyed governor who is taking hold of the problem in a tough, even handed manner.
Still many of those in the legislature&#8212;specifically the Republican leadership&#8212; insist on playing party politics, rather than coming together to do what is best for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Barr &amp; Green Dot Divorce, Cali School Sups Apply Pressure, &amp; More on Value Added</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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GREEN DOT CHARTER SCHOOLS&#8217; FOUNDER, STEVE BARR, GOES A NEW DIRECTION
I&#8217;m not sure why no LA media seem to have reported on this story since Barr has been such a significant figure in LA&#8217;s education reform movement, but&#8230;.in any case, this story from the NY Times has the basics on Barr&#8217;s parting of the ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Susan Straight &amp; The Sad Spring Blooms of Teacher Pink Slips</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The gifted novelist Susan Straight (who teaches at UC Riverside) writes in the Huffington Post about the fact that, in California, and as a nation,  we are willing to lay off a higher percentage of public school teachers than we are nearly any other profession.  Straight questions why this seems like a sane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking of Japan, the Blocked California Budget and More</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/environment/2011/admin/thinking-of-japan-the-blocked-california-budget-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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MEMORIES OF JAPAN, SOME INDELIBLE, SOME WASHED AWAY
The frightening news out of Japan cannot help but hold our attention,  as heroic engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station  continue to try to save the plant&#8217;s crippled nuclear reactors from meltdown. 
But, in addition to the devastating TV news reports, please do yourself [...]]]></description>
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