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Berkeley Unified School District teachers and students have promoted anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment on campus.. Multiple California K-12 schools are being accused of promoting "viciously hostile environments" of "severe and persistent" antisemitism in a recent federal civil rights complaint... Brandeis Center .. along with the U.S. Department of Education filed the complaint against the Berkely Unified School District ... The complaint alleged that the district has allowed the ongoing "harassment and discrimination" of Jewish students to skyrocket since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel. "Over the past four months, BUSD has knowingly allowed its K-12 campuses to become viciously...

About 22 percent of California's eighth-graders tested on a national science test passed, ranking the Golden State among the worst in the nation, according to figures released Thursday. Scores from the 2012 National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation's Report Card, show that too few students have the skills that could lead to careers in the field, educators said. http://www.ocregister.com/news/students-353581-state-scores.html

Life Lessons by: Malcolm A. Kline, March 04, 2008 One of the benefits of the recap of the annual March for Life that anti-abortion activists hold here in our nation’s capital is the glimpse it gives us of the full throttle manner in which abortion is promoted today. “This year’s National Teens for Life Summit trained more than 20 teens from diverse backgrounds with a host of talents,” Joleigh Little reports in the National Right To Life News. “They ranged in age from 13 to 22 and will take what they learned one cold January weekend in Washington, D.C., and...

School hate crimes spike LAUSD police report that incidents have quadrupled in past decade By Naush Boghossian and Lisa M. Sodders, Staff Writers Hate crimes in Los Angeles' public schools have surged more than 300 percent over the past decade -- the highest growth rate of all campus crimes, fueling concerns about racial tensions in the nation's second-largest school district. Nearly all of the 52 hate crimes reported in the 2003-04 school year were racially motivated, up from 12 in 1995-96, according to the latest figures available from Los Angeles Unified School District police. In recent months, officials have continued...

<p>SACRAMENTO (AP) - Many California schools that are successful by state standards have been marked as failing under federal rules because subgroups of students - such as minorities or learning disabled - didn't meet federal academic goals, according to a study released Tuesday.</p>

Monday, December 08, 2003 - THE California Teachers Association is the 800-pound gorilla of California education. As the largest teachers union in the state, it has succeeded for years in blocking teacher-testing, merit pay, an end to teacher tenure -- and, most importantly, the right of parents to choose better schools for their children. Despite its efforts at derailing some of the most obvious and desperately needed reforms of California's catastrophic public schools, its unending PR machine has masked its anti-reform mission from most of the public. Indeed, many California voters fail to recognize the CTA as the special interest...

<p>SAN DIMAS, Calif. (AP) - Several parents of Lone Hill Middle School students have found themselves wondering recently why their kids know so much about how much illegal drugs cost.</p> <p>As part of a classroom project, students were assigned imaginary careers and salaries, and told to figure out how much various drug habits would cost them.</p>

Schools to retain course aimed at outcastsBy DONNA JONESSentinel staff writer Students and educators have been dealing with hazing, teasing and bullying since the first schools opened. But what may have been viewed as not-so-nice facts of life took on new urgency when outcast students like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold began to exact murderous revenge on those they perceived as their tormentors. In the wake of school shootings at Columbine High School and elsewhere, educators in Santa Cruz County and nationwide are turning increasingly to specialty companies that promise their workshops will bring kids together and ease campus tensions....

Crossing the Line crosses the line, some parents sayBy DONNA JONES Sentinel staff writer APTOS — Educators at Aptos High School hoped to bring students together and make the campus a safer place when they brought a seminar to campus earlier this year. But critics say educators crossed the line when they didn’t inform parents about the sensitive nature of some of the seminar topics, including sexual activity, suicide and drug use. More than 300 students took part in the daylong Breaking Down the Walls seminar in January. About 50 students also participated in a session that trained them to...