BRIEFLY : CHARGES DISMISSED AGAINST CONTRACTORS.A judge on Tuesday dismissed criminal charges against two contractors accused of involvement in a bid-rigging scheme in the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. . The District Attorney's Office filed charges in January, accusing Cam Painting owner Priamos Gennaris and T&M Construction owner Terry Tsetseris of conspiring to illegally divide painting contracts in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. and Harbor area The Harbor Area is the area along the Port of Los Angeles. It contains neighborhoods of Los Angeles (including Wilmington & San Pedro). Los Angeles City neighborhoods in the Harbor Area
Superior Court Judge Stephen O'Neil dismissed charges at the end of a seven-day preliminary hearing, deciding that prosecutors had insufficient evidence insufficient evidence n. a finding (decision) by a trial judge or an appeals court that the prosecution in a criminal case or a plaintiff in a lawsuit has not proved the case because the attorney did not present enough convincing evidence. to go ahead to trial, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the defendants' attorney, David Conn. - Daily News School gun proposal may target parents Moving to curtail campus violence, the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Board of Education voted 4-1 to seek legislation holding parents accountable when a student brings a gun onto campus. Board members Jeff Horton and Victoria Castro questioned whether the proposed legislation would have any real effect and said they wanted more input from parents. - Daily News Lake View Terrace gets charter school To the cheers of about 100 parents, Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. board members on Tuesday unanimously approved plans to open a new charter school in Lake View Terrace. The Community Charter Middle School will offer its first classes this fall, serving 100 sixth-grade students. Administrators plan to add grades seven and eight during the following two years. - Daily News Woman fatally hit crossing parking lot A 78-year-old Sherman Oaks woman was killed Monday when she was hit by a vehicle crossing a preschool parking lot, police said. Jean Hufford was pronounced dead at the scene after being hit by a van driving through the parking lot of Valley Presbyterian Preschool, 9240 Haskell Ave., said Los Angeles police Officer Gary Weller. The circumstances of the 8:30 a.m. incident were unclear but Weller said the van's driver was not cited. - Daily News After-school plan OK'd by supervisors Taking a burden off the shoulders of working mothers, nearly 14,000 children in Los Angeles County could enroll in after-school enrichment programs under a $74 million program the county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. approved Tuesday. The vote for the programs at 225 schools - 100 of them in the Los Angeles Unified School District and the remainder in the rest of the county - was the culmination of more than a year of effort by Every Mother is a Working Mother Network and more than 250 supporting community organizations. - Daily News |
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