As most education watchers know, on Sunday, the LA Times released its second round of its...
Archive - May 2011
Zachary Champommier’s Mom Files $10 Million Wrongful Death Suit
Studio City Patch, in a story by AnnMarie Baranik, has the details. Here’s the opening of...
Never Say Goodbye: An Eastside Love Story
The LA Eastside blogger who goes by the name, Don Quixote, has often been an intelligent presence...
Pushed Out: Reforming Zero Tolerance at LAUSD
PUSHED OUT The concept of Zero Tolerance is alive and well in the Los Angeles Unified School...
Reporting on Jerry
I’ll have a couple of intriguing topics early next week—the 3-strikes report, and a new...
CA Schools Are Broke, But Private Prison Operators Announce Record Profits
PRISON INDUSTRIAL NATION? The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)—the nation’s...
#FreeDorothy: Al-Jazeera Journalist Confirmed Being Held by Syrians
Late on Wednesday, the fiance of missing Al Jazeera journalist issued a statement that Syrian...
The Totality of a Life: A New Way of Looking at the Death Penalty
As the the various Innocence Projects around the country continue to find people on death row who...
Back from 3-Strikes Symposium….
…Posting Later Today
Steve Cooley Talks About the Cost of His 3-Strikes Position
Day 1 of the Three Strikes Symposium put on by The Center on Media, Crime and Justice was filled...