BRIEFLY : CITY SUES COUNTY OVER DRUG TESTING.The city of Los Angeles
Under the system, every drug offender is required to pay $50 for the drug test, which is a requirement for some substance abuse diversion programs. The county collects the money and then reimburses the cities that perform the tests. In this case, lawyers for the city of Los Angeles say they have performed $4 million worth of drug tests on convicts. However, they allege in the suit that the county Treasurer's Office has failed to pay the money the city is owed since the beginning of the year. ?13- Daily News 2 West Valley schools to reopen The Los Angeles Board of Education voted Monday to reopen two closed west 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. schools and begin negotiations on sites for primary centers in the East Valley. Plans call for reopening Haynes Street and Newcastle Avenue elementaries as well as Osage Elementary in Westchester. It would cost about $7.4 million to reopen all three schools, said Gordon Wohlers, assistant superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. of the district's Policy Research and Development unit. District officials also plan to begin negotiations for two Van Nuys sites owned by the Department of Water and Power. The sites would be used as primary centers - elementary schools for 400 kindergarten through second-graders that are typically one to two acres in size. ?13- Daily News Police identify man hit, killed by car Glendale police Monday identified the 82-year-old pedestrian who died after being hit by a car last week. Officials said Denis O'Brien Denis O'Brien, (born April 19 1958 in County Cork), is an Irish entrepreneur. An Arts graduate of University College Dublin, O'Brien received an MBA in corporate finance from Boston College in 1982, he holds an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin. of Glendale was hit by a Ford Probe The Ford Probe was a coupe produced by Ford, introduced in 1989 to replace the Ford EXP as the company's sport compact car. It was sold in the European, Australian, and North American markets. driven by another 82-year-old Glendale resident as O'Brien was crossing North Verdugo Road on Friday at about 11 a.m., said Chahe Keuroghelian, a Glendale Police Department spokesman. ?13- Daily News Special education `emergency' cited Los Angeles schools 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. need to hire up to 500 special education teachers a year if it wants to comply with the Chanda Smith Consent Decree A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. , officials told a panel of board members Monday. ``I ask you to declare this an emergency situation,'' consent decree administrator Louis Barber told the Special Committee of the Whole. ``We need to hire 300 to 500 teachers every year if you want to get ahead. If you continue growing by 18,000 students every year you will not keep up.'' This year the Los Angeles Unified School District's total enrollment is expected to reach 680,000 students. |
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