BRIEFLY MALDEF TO SUE LAUSD OVER BELMONT.The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a non-profit civil rights group, plans to file a lawsuit today against 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. over the controversial and half-completed Belmont Learning Center This Belmont Learning Center contains information about a building currently under construction. It may contain information of a speculative nature, and the content may change dramatically as construction progresses and new information becomes available. in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . The suit seeks a court order requiring the school board to prepare a new environmental impact report on the unfinished campus. The group argues that the previous EIR EIR n. popular acronym for environmental impact report, required by many states as part of the application to a county or city for approval of a land development or project. (See: environmental impact report) did not sufficiently address the implementation of a system to mitigate the effects of large quantities of toxic gases rising from the ground beneath the campus. - Daily News Universal City station popular The Universal City subway station, open since June 24, is already the fifth most popular of the 16 in the system, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority reported Tuesday. According to MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. estimates, 19,488 people either board or disembark from trains at Universal City daily. The North Hollywood station has also proved more popular than most MTA stations, averaging an estimated 15,902 ``boardings'' each day. That makes it the seventh most popular station. - City News Service Mercer to take helm of district Georgia Mercer, the first 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. resident in a decade to serve as president of the Los Angeles Community College District The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California and some of its neighboring cities. In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages. , presides over her first full meeting today. The Tarzana resident Mercer will serve as the public face of the board for a one-year term and plans to advocate expansion of Mission College and formation of partnerships with the Los Angeles Unified School District. - Daily News Miller, Cortines may return to LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) Howard Miller and Ramon Cortines, who ran Los Angeles Unified School District on an interim basis between superintendents Ruben Zacarias and Roy Romer, may return to the district on a consulting basis under a plan approved by the school board Tuesday. - Daily News Old rhinoceros dies at L.A. Zoo Twinkletoes, a 2,000-pound black rhinoceros that lived at the Los Angeles Zoo The Los Angeles Zoo founded in 1966, is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Zoo, located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, is home to 1,200 animals from around the world. since it opened in 1966, was euthanized this week because her internal organs had begun to fail due to old age. Born in Kenya in the early 1960s, Twinkletoes was in her late 30s, the oldest female black rhinoceros in North America. She had five calves during her years at the zoo. - Associated Press 58 evacuated due to sewer gas leak SAN FERNANDO - An apparent gas leak from a sewage pipe caused the evacuation of 58 employees from three businesses in San Fernando on Tuesday. - Daily News 3 get jail time for hate crime SAN FERNANDO - Three young men convicted of terrorism for burning a cross in front an interracial couple's home in the San Fernando Valley were sentenced Tuesday to two months in jail. San Fernando Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen also ordered Daniel Claxton, 21, of Glendale; Justin Berkowitz, 19, of Arleta; and Christopher Fraley, 20, of Encino, to serve three years on probation, complete a six-week tolerance program and pay $200 to the state Victim's Restitution Fund. - City News Service |
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