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Blogs
March 27, 2013
Compton City Hall Corruption? Tune In Tonight
The Bell corruption trial was all about a City Council that allegedly paid itself to attend make-work committee meetings. Those meet-ups ended up adding up to six-figure salaries in a town whose residents are mostly working-class. In Compton, a similar scandal could be shaping up. KCET teases this ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2013
Historic Parent Trigger Approved in California by Adelanto School Board
It's official. For the first time ever in the United States, a California school district has approved a Parent Trigger, which allows parents to make changes to a failing school. The landmark decision by the Adelanto School District to allow Desert Trails Elementary School in the Mojave Desert to ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2012
Yes, Won't Back Down Takes a Controversial Stance on Teachers Unions. But That's Not a Bad Thing
See also: *California's Parent Trigger *Parent Trigger's Second Try Teachers' unions don't want you to see Won't Back Down, an underdog film that opened Sept. 28, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a working-class mother in Pittsburgh who will do anything to give her young daughter a great education -- ... More >>
Blogs
September 18, 2012
Parent Trigger Movie 'Won't Back Down' Inspired by L.A. Weekly Feature Story
You may have seen a trailer for the new film Won't Back Down, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis and Holly Hunter. The movie's subject matter revolves around education reform and a thing called the Parent Trigger, a California law that allows parents to takeover a failing school. From what a re ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2012
Skyy Fisher, Compton School Board Member, Calls Superintendent a 'Bitch' and Trayvon Martin a 'Faggot' (VIDEO)
Could the Compton Unified School District get any sleazier? A concerned father named Sergio gave us a call this afternoon and directed our attention to a horrendous interview that CUSD Board Member Skyy Fisher, elected last November, recently gave to a bunch of his former buddies on their podcast, ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2012
Want to Buy a Rap CD on Venice Beach? You Sure?
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] The plan was simple. Head to Venice Beach, sample the mixtapes hawked by the hucksters hovering near the paddle tennis courts, pick one rapper to profile ... More >>
News
December 1, 2011
Pulling the Trigger on Failing Schools
Parents aim for revolution — again
Blogs
September 21, 2011
Did the LA Times Stop Delivering Its Sunday Magazine to Low-Income Neighborhoods?
LA Times MagazineOh, Inglewood -- you wouldn't understand.If former Los Angeles Times Magazine publisher Steven Gellman's new lawsuit against the paper has even a few teeth, which it certainly seems to, L.A.'s rag of record is so cornered right now. Gellman is calling out the paper's senior ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2011
Parent Trigger Regulations Approved by California State Board of Education: Let the Reform Begin!
PHOTO BY TED SOQUIThe absence of regulations meant trouble for a recent Parent Trigger attempt in Compton.Huge victory today for the education-reform camp, and charter groups ready to flip public schools into places of learning, not administrator-heavy cesspools of FAIL: At about 10:20 this ... More >>
Music
June 2, 2011
DJ Quik: Trials and Tribulations of a West Coast Legend
PHOTO BY TED SOQUIThe absence of regulations meant trouble for a recent Parent Trigger attempt in Compton.Huge victory today for the education-reform camp, and charter groups ready to flip public schools into places of learning, not administrator-heavy cesspools of FAIL: At about 10:20 this ... More >>
Blogs
May 26, 2011
'Parent Trigger' Plan B: Charter School to Open 2 Blocks From McKinley Elementary, Draining Students and Forcing Back-Door Takeover
Google MapsChurch of the Redeemer in Compton: It's no Hogwarts, but it'll do for now.You'd be hard-pressed to find a school district as opposed to the new-age charter-school movement as Compton Unified. Not once have district officials accepted an application from a charter hopeful, despite t ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
Parents Fighting For Law-Backed Right to Take Over Compton Elementary School Take Cause to Sacramento
Parent Trigger proponents head to Sacramento.Updated after the jump: The folks trying to legally take over their Compton elementary school are claiming a big victory in Sacramento following this trip. The parent troops in Southern California who have been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to re ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2011
Compton Cricket Team 'Homies & the Popz' to Rep U.S. in Tourney Down Under (BONUS: They Rap About It)
Compton Cricket ClubThis is not a jokeA dozen dreamers from the hood, one geographically displaced athletic passion. Dare we say Jamaican bobsled team? Nah, but the Compton Cricket Club is nine times as street. Even streeter: These guys might actually have a chance at beating "comparably com ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2011
Parent Trigger Showdown in Compton Gets Increasingly Heavy; Jerry Brown, Kamala Harris, and Barack Obama M.I.A.?
Governor Jerry BrownUpdate: Former state Sen. Gloria Romero accuses Compton Unified of strong-arming parents to stop charter school. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and another huge law firm join Parent Trigger effort pro bono. Things get increasingly heavy in Compton today when the McKinley Parent ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2011
Compton School District Tries to Force 'Parent Trigger' Signers to Declare Discontent Face-to-Face With School Officials
PHOTO BY TED SOQUICompton parents who want to switch McKinley Elementary into different hands will have to tell that to district higher-ups next weekAt an unannounced Compton Unified School District meeting last night, district officials demanded that McKinley Elementary School parents -- ove ... More >>
News
December 30, 2010
Compton's Parent Trigger Feud
PTA opposes charter school. Moms sick of McKinley Elementary fight back
Blogs
December 22, 2010
L.A. County: Bell, Compton Should Not Have Own Police Departments
Those were the daysTwo of L.A. County's most lawless little cities -- Bell for its politicians, Compton for its gangs -- want to deal with their criminals them gosh-darn selves. But that doesn't look likely -- not if county officials have anything to say about it. Compton has already been un ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2010
'Parent Trigger' Petitioners Fend Off Accusations From Compton Unified, McKinley PTA -- Not California Board Of Education
Updated after the jump: VIDEO PROOF that we're so totally misinformed. Originally posted at 6:20 a.m. Over the last few days, a lightning storm of hear-say and hyperbole has lit up the sky over two groups of Compton parents. Major media outlets reporting the conflict have tended toward one ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2010
Compton School Takeover Supporters Pull Out YouTube 'Evidence' Of Teacher's Intimidation Tactics; Hundreds Of Angry, Confused Parents Show Up To District Board Meeting
Compton-ites at the Dec. 14 Compton Unified School District board meeting rallied against charter-school reformersUpdated after the jump: The Weekly gives a play-by-play of a long, passionate night -- with testimonies from nearby charter schools, a few crazies and a handful of parents who say ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
With Exclusive, Unfettered Access to Parent Trigger Organizers in Compton, L.A. Weekly Examines Charges of Deception and Harassment Made By Their Opponents
Ted SoquiParent Revolution organizers Shirley Ford and Mary Nareja (center) with McKinley Elementary parentsOnce Ismenia Guzman handed over a thick binder of parent signatures to a Compton Unified School District official last Tuesday morning, Shirley Ford knew her work was far from over whe ... More >>
News
December 9, 2010
California's Parent Trigger
How McKinley in Compton became the first school taken over by parents under a radical new law
Blogs
December 6, 2010
Shanice Mckinley, First Miss California USA Contestant From Compton, Wants Your Vote
shanicemckinley2011.comShanice Mckinley goes for gold in Miss California USA contest.The city of Compton is no stranger to sensational headlines about its crime, gangs and influence on West Coast rap. But, if you've been there, you also know that it's an economic engine of a city with a comm ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2010
Compton Makes National Top 10 List Of Most-Dangerous Cities
Compton thug life, circa 1954.Los Angeles, we're proud of you. While the city proper only made the top 162 in a ranking of the nation's most-violent municipalities, we knew the region would somehow represent. And that it did. Compton made the top 10! Yay! In fact Compton -- you know, the ci ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2010
Watch: Is Rapper HOPE Compton's Next Big Hype? Check Out the Video for 'Bliss' Ft. Y-O
Compton rapper HOPE, a U-N-I affiliate trying to make 401K in one dayHis MySpace page could use some pimping, but Compton rapper H.O.P.E., a.k.a. 24-year-old Marquis Wright, has got the skills to pay the bills. Whoops -- bad choice of outdated idiom. In the just-out music video for the new H ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2010
Ex-Cop Mayor Of Compton Gets His Police Department Back; Sheriff's Deputies Told To Take A Hike
Almost ten years after it was shuttered, the Compton Police Department was revived. The Compton City Council late Tuesday voted 3-2 to reestablish its own department and stop contracting with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for police services. According to Fox 11 News, former Co ... More >>
News
December 31, 2009
Foster-Child Power
Microstipends for parentless youths got slashed by Arnold. Will kids fight back?
Blogs
December 4, 2009
Go to Compton for Cheap Fashion: Tulle Sample Sale on Saturday
Just FYI: Tulle's sample sale is happening tomorrow early afternoon in Compton. Cash or credit. If you haven't heard of Tulle, they're a cute, whimsical line of casualwear--more inventive than Old Navy, less expensive than J.Crew--with a bit of an old fashioned retro vibe.
Music
August 6, 2009
We’re Jerkin’ (Starring the New Boyz, J-Hawk and Pink Dollaz)
Gangsta rap is over. Clownin’ and Krumpin’ too
Blogs
July 9, 2008
Weiss' Summer Jamz 08-G'Z Up, Prose Down
Summer Jamz '08: G'Z Up, Prose Down http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4NBDRWLQ 1.Parliament-“Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) 2.N.W.A.-“Alwayz Into Somethin’” 3.Dr. Dre-“Nuthin’ But a G Thang” 4.Above the Law ft. 2Pac & Money B-“Call It What U Want” 5 ... More >>
News
June 29, 2006
Compton's Crash Course
Connecting the doubts about the failure of a community college
News
May 11, 2006
Colorblind Jobs
Coming to terms over who gets hired on Compton project
News
August 4, 2005
Compton City Limits
After Omar Bradley, Compton still struggles for change
News
August 4, 2005
A Creek Flows in Compton
In a city famous for gangs and hardcore rap, it’s hard to imagine how a heron soaring above you can improve your life
News
March 3, 2005
Flora Gil Krisloff Interview Transcript
In a city famous for gangs and hardcore rap, it’s hard to imagine how a heron soaring above you can improve your life
News
September 23, 2004
Drowning Deaths Remembered
Two years after alleged hazing tragedy, families have tears but not closure
News
May 6, 2004
Compton Casino Faces Long Odds
Two years after alleged hazing tragedy, families have tears but not closure
News
January 22, 2004
Killing Time on the Ghetto Blue
The nation's busiest- and deadliest - light rail line
Supplement
December 11, 2003
Bay City Blues
Compton�s evolution from mild-mannered L.A. backwater to ground zero of ghetto nation makes cowards � and accomplices � of us all
News
September 25, 2003
Votes of No-Confidence
Cost of election ending up in court
Film+TV
August 21, 2003
Better Than Alright
The good news about the kids in Our Town
News
March 13, 2003
Arrested Developments
Omar and company finally get nabbed by the D.A. But will Compton get a clean start?
News
May 23, 2002
An Exquisite Scar
Life and commerce along the Alameda Corridor
Calendar
March 21, 2002
Baptized in Fire
On the exigencies and excuses of black history
News
February 21, 2002
Omar's Comeback
Compton�s nightmare begins anew
News
October 11, 2001
Perrodin Unbound
Compton�s new mayor finally finds his voice
News
June 21, 2001
No More Omar
Compton�s new mayor finally finds his voice
News
May 3, 2001
Elective Memory
Making the scene in Compton
News
April 19, 2001
Where�s Omar?
Compton�s very visible mayor goes underground to duck the heat
News
April 12, 2001
The King of Compton
Mayor Omar Bradley and his reign of chaos
News
October 22, 1998
Compton's Quagmire
Mayor Omar Bradley and his reign of chaos
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