These are not your run-of-the-mill potheads jammed into the long, narrow classroom at Oaksterdam University, a tiny campus with no sign to betray its location on busy San Vicente Boulevard south of the Beverly Center. A serious vibe fills the loftlike space, where rows of desks are arranged like church......
The issue before the Department of Water and Power amounted to a simple question: Why settle for one exorbitantly paid top executive when the department could e...
He’s angry, yes, and willing to expound at length on the many screwups and shortcomings of L.A.’s elected elite, but Douglas Epperhart isn’t out to fire anybody...
Ronni Ephraim vividly remembers two sad-eyed twin girls struggling through third grade at Limerick Elementary School in Canoga Park. Absent as often as they att...
Mediocrity is so entrenched in Los Angeles public education that an entire lexicon has emerged.
“Teacher Jail” refers to the housing of wayward instructors ins...
It’s been a rocky start for Ramon Cortines. The genial 76-year-old bureaucrat — who was never on anyone’s list of tough-minded academic reformers — was thrust i...
Having orchestrated a flurry of last-minute deals and concessions in the polished corridors of City Hall, Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge beamed like a ...
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Once David L. Brewer III was officially out as Los Angeles schools superintendent, TV crews crowding the foyer at the Los ...
One of the raps against James Hahn, when he was mayor of Los Angeles, was his lack of charisma. He had neither the glib schmoozability of Richard Riordan, nor t...
The way Tom LaBonge was talking, you’d have thought the veteran Los Angeles City Councilman had been toiling his entire political career to protect rugged, 4,21...
