Early news: 8:39 p.m.: 5.0 centered close to Inglewood and Lennox: News at USGS. Didn’t...
Why “Let’s Just Move On” Won’t Work
One of the things I’ve learned in nearly 20 years of writing about street gangs, is that for...
The Reasons NOT to Put LA’s Adult Ed on the Chopping Block
You think the cuts to K-12 schools are bad? Wait until I tell you about adult education. Thursday...
The OVC Gang Injunction: Using a Tool Badly – Part 2
(OC Weekly columnist Gustavo Arellano standing in front of mural by artist Emigdio Vasquez, which...
Posting Later Today…. Meanwhile Torture (Again) – UPDATED
UPDATE: Okay, there has been much news today, but now that I’ve waited this long, I’m...
Social Justice Shorts – Education Edition
COURT ORDER STOPS TEACHER WALKOUT Last week the district went to court to stop the district’s...
The OVC Gang Injunction: Using a Tool Badly – Part 1
(NOTE: PART 2 COMING THURSDAY) In late March of this year, Orange County District Attorney Tony...
What Will We Do About the Matter of Torture?
As the once-taciturn Dick Cheney gallops from cable news show to cable news show yammering about...
DANGEROUS JAILS – Part 4: Triage
When we last left off with “Alfonso Trujillo,” the man with the injured knee who was an...
Is Empathy Right 4 SCOTUS?
Ever since Barack Obama identified empathy as one of the qualities essential for his Supreme Court...
Cruel & Unusual: A New Look at California’s LWOP Kids
Ashley Jones, age 14, at sentencing in Alabama Last week, the LA Times ran a very good editorial...
Joanna, Damon and Bryan: Portraits of Three Locke Students
KCET’s Magazine show, SoCal Connected wanted to do a portrait of the transformation of...
Cell Phones in Prison – UPDATED
There is a new bill that will come to the California Senate floor for discussion either today or...
California’s College Education Gap….Widening
Okay, let’s look at all these facts, right in a nice row, shall we? First there is this set...
Filling the News Gap: USC and Crenshaw H.S. Report South LA
As newspapers continue to ax more reporters, producing ever larger gaps in local news coverage, ...
Could There Really Be a Green Dot America?
The May 11 New Yorker Magazine has a profile of Steve Barr and his Green Dot Charter...
The Impossibility of Firing Lousy Schoolteachers – UPDATED
In case you missed it, yesterday’s LA Times had an excellent article written by Jason Song...
Swine Flu Emergency in California Prisons???! (Or Maybe Not.)
Yesterday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced they they were...