CLASSROOM BURGLARY YIELDS LEAD.Byline: Yvette Cabrera Daily News Staff Writer 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. district police got their first lead Friday in a case of computer theft from special education classrooms. Thieves made off with about $3,000 in computer equipment from a special education class at Miller High School last weekend, police said Friday. The suspects smashed a window to break into the advanced special education class and left with three monitors and several computers used regularly by the severely emotionally disturbed students, teachers and police said. There are no suspects, said Richard Page For the musician, see . Richard Lewis Page (born 22 February 1941, Tredegar) was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and from 1983 to 2005. , assistant chief for the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) police, who estimates the burglary occurred Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. or Monday morning. He would not disclose the nature of the lead that investigators are pursuing. ``(The thieves) are taking advantage of handicapped kids,'' said Steve Medina, a teacher's assistant for the special education class of 10 students. ``They're taking away something from kids that really need the help.'' The burglary upset the students, who used the computers to learn how to tell time and use money, and for subjects like reading, math, geography and speech development, said Medina. ``The kids in that class are the highest functioning in the school and, bam, their computers are gone and we can't replace them,'' said Medina. The computers were not insured. The only things left behind for the students were two ancient Apple computers, 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. Medina. He said it appeared the thieves knew what they were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. . LAUSD police, however, do not suspect an organized crime ring is involved and said this is the first computer theft in recent history at Miller High School. ``We have computer thefts on a fairly frequent basis, but we haven't had them out in that area for a while,'' said Page. ``Once we place computers in the schools, those are usually targeted equipment, but I would not say we're experiencing a real problem in that area,'' said Page. The classroom did not have any security grills or a computer alarm, according to Medina. But Proposition BB funds will be used to install alarms in schools that don't have them now, said Page. ``We do have hundreds of alarm systems,'' said Page. ``Most of the schools that are unalarmed are in the Valley, but that problem is being rectified rectified refined; made straight. with Prop. BB.'' |
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