BRIEFLY URBAN SCHOOLS GIVEN FUND PRIORITY.Acting on a lawsuit brought by 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. officials, a Superior Court judge in 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. ordered the state Thursday to stop doling out $2.9 billion in school construction funds on a ``first come, first served basis'' and give overcrowded o·ver·crowdv. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds v.tr. To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms. urban schools priority. Judge David Yaffe gave the State Allocation Board 30 days to come up with a new distribution formula, 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. LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) officials. LAUSD advocates argue that overcrowded districts should have priority in funding, given the difficulty in finding suitable land and reducing pollution problems. Since the 1998 approval of Proposition 1A, the state's largest district has received $30 million or 1 percent of the amount authorized by voters. - City News Service Driver hurt by falling tree limb WOODLAND HILLS - An 18-year-old woman driving through the parking lot of the Warner Center Apartments was injured, when part of a tree fell on her silver sedan, crushing the roof down to the rear seats and heavily damaging the passenger side, officials said. The woman received a blow to her chin and was taken to Kaiser Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles City Fire spokesman Brian Humphrey said, adding that her injuries did not appear to be serious. The airbags in the vehicle deployed and tree trimmers in the area managed to pull her out, Humphrey said. - Daily News Traffic slowed by Newhall brush fire NEWHALL - A six-acre brush fire that erupted along the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. Thursday afternoon delayed the evening commute on the southbound side, officials said. About 127 firefighters battled the fire, reported at about 6 p.m. Thursday near the freeway at Calgrove. The fire was contained at 7:35 pm., officials said. - Daily News Law targets credit companies SACRAMENTO - Credit card companies would have to warn consumers that it could take them years to pay off their credit card debt Credit card debt is an example of unsecured consumer debt, accessed through ISO 7810 plastic credit cards. Debt results when a client of a credit card company purchases an item or service through the card system. if they pay only the minimum, under a bill passed by the state Senate Thursday. The bill's author, Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg Robert Myles Hertzberg was born on November 19, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, was an attorney and businessperson, and served in the California State Assembly from 1996-2002. , D-Van Nuys, says debtors are lulled into a false sense of security by thinking they are paying off their balance by paying the minimum payment. The bill would require credit card companies to disclose the total cost they will incur and the amount of time it will take to pay off the debt if they make only minimum payment. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Garland's Oscar center of lawsuit The motion picture Academy sued the owner of a movie memorabilia business Friday, claiming she must give the organization first dibson Judy Garland's 1939 honorary Oscar. The Academy claims Marcia Tysseling, owner of Star Wares, is going against a 1958 agreement that Garland signed. Tysseling could not be reached for comment. The Academy claims that in 1958, when Garland said her Oscar was missing and wanted a new one, it made her sign an agreement that the Academy should get first dibs at a price of $10 if it were sold, according to the lawsuit. - City News Service Jail settlement gains approval The Los Angeles County Claims Board gave preliminary approval Thursday to a settlement that would give the County $8.4 million from the Twin Towers jail architect for alleged design flaws. The firm of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, or HOK, also is to provide $500,000 in professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. at no charge to county-designated projects over the next two years. - City News Service |
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