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Finding a friend in Oregon, Newsom’s lawsuit pays off and the Nazi next door
Oregon may join California's cap-and-trade market. Why CSU students pay more for parking. Tom Steyer wades into a new political fight.
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Education
Another hidden cost of college? How student parking fees are subsidizing faculty, staff
When California college students questioned why they pay more for parking than staff, they found labor contracts require employees pay less than them.
Commentary
My turn: Here’s what’s at the root of L.A. teachers’ complaint
Los Angeles teachers’ issues are fundamental, among them: bloated class sizes, lack of full-time nurses in 80 percent of Los Angeles schools, annual waves of destructive layoffs, and a student-counselor ratio so bad that the United Teachers of Los Angeles’s demand is to bring it down to 500-1. The Los Angeles Unified School District has legitimate financial issues. However, the district has repeatedly projected deficits which don’t materialize. Moreover, the district’s reserve is now almost $2 billion, an unprecedented figure.
Commentary
My turn: We must do a better job with birth control education
New research finds a troubling disconnect between the community college students’ desire to avoid pregnancy and how they act when it comes to preventing it. Students do not consider themselves to be at risk of pregnancy, nor do they express worry about getting pregnant, despite not wanting to have a child while in school.