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2000 Stories by Howard Blume

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  • A Choice Experiment

    published December 21, 2000

    ABOUT THE SERIES: California‘s charter schools have won the unqualified and often uncritical endorsement of forces all across th... More >>

  • No Classrooms,
    No Teachers,
    No Playgrounds,
    No Standards

    published November 16, 2000

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  • Barry Groveman’s Secret

    published September 14, 2000

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  • The Short Season of Howard Miller

    published June 29, 2000

    It was an overheard comment, not intended for public consumption, but it very clearly spelled the end of a short but intense career. Howard... More >>

  • Top of the Class

    published June 22, 2000

    The setting was the Athenian Room at downtown‘s grand Biltmore Hotel. It was time for the final question at the official introductory new... More >>

  • No Vacancy

    published June 15, 2000

    The Ugly Reality Forget math and reading programs. Forget teacher accountability. Forget social promotion. The Los Angeles Unified... More >>

  • Life Without Ramon

    published May 18, 2000

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  • Changing Times

    published May 4, 2000

    Photo by Debra DiPaolo Eyes were riveted on Chicago in March when the Tribune Co. announced its $6.38 billion acquisition of the Los... More >>

  • Conflicts 101

    published May 4, 2000

    Amid the conflagration of the Belmont Learning Complex scandal, one figure has stood out as Mr. Clean, in the most literal sense of the word.... More >>

  • Tempting Belmont

    published April 13, 2000

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  • Belmont Bucks

    published April 6, 2000

    The state’s most powerful legislator has cast his lot and the state’s cash with supporters of the abandoned Belmont Learning Complex projec... More >>

  • Times of Angst

    published March 30, 2000

    As L.A. Times staffers filed into last week‘s employee briefing, they could see right away there was a new sheriff in town. There... More >>

  • The End of Times

    published March 23, 2000

    AP Photo/John T. Barr This was not just another Sunday at the Los Angeles Times: At about 7:30 p.m., prim editor in chief... More >>

  • Odd Ends

    published March 16, 2000

    A Star Is Stillborn It seemed like a strange choice: the earnest but jowly -- almost Nixonesque -- mug of Ron Unz as the public face... More >>

  • Dirty Politics

    published March 9, 2000

      If you’re a registered voter living in the Silver Lake-Echo Park area you probably got one in your mail box: a full-color politic... More >>

  • Getting Even

    published March 9, 2000

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  • Spacing Schools

    published February 24, 2000

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  • Oozing Asphalt Jungle

    published February 17, 2000

    Scene of the goo: Cudahy Mayor Perez presses down a small bubble. How concerned would you be if your child‘s school was built atop ... More >>

  • TV Guy Axed

    published February 3, 2000

    Tony Burke, a TV-station technician who reinvented himself as a top-shelf broadcast executive, has been sacked a... More >>

  • Bell Tolls for Belmont

    published February 3, 2000

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