Back to school.The beginning of the school year marks the debut of L.A.'s largest Spanish-language newspaper in public-school classrooms. La Opinion, a 120,000-circulation daily newspaper published by ImpreMedia LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , has launched a Newspaper in Education curriculum for students in L.A.-area schools from kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through high school. The newspaper will be integrated into lessons on current affairs current affairs npl → (noticias fpl de) actualidad f current affairs current npl → (questions fpl d')actualité f , culture and geography. The Newspaper in Education program for La Opinion is sponsored by La Curacao, an electronics and appliances retailer specializing in the Hispanic Hispanic Multiculture A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race Social medicine Any of 17 major Latino subcultures, concentrated in California, Texas, Chicago, Miam, NY, and elsewhere market. La Opinion's decision to launch the program comes as Wall Street pressures many publicly traded newspaper companies to cut back their participation in classroom programs, saying they are costly and produce few returns. Management of the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , which distributes 70,000 copies in classrooms, intends to cut back on free copies distributed under the program. |
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