EDITORIAL SCHOOL REFORM'S PRICE TAG UNLIKE LAUSD, MAYOR SPENT PRIVATE MONEY ON CAMPAIGN.POLITICS being what it is, it should come as little shock that Mayor Antonio Antonio lends money gratis. [Br. Lit.: Merchant of Venice] See : Generosity Antonio schemes against his brother Prospero. [Br. Lit.: The Tempest] See : Treachery Villaraigosa's special campaign committee has spent some $250,000 pushing for his LAUSD-takeover plan. Access in Sacramento Sacramento, city, United States Sacramento (săkrəmĕn`tō), city (1990 pop. 369,365), state capital and seat of Sacramento co., central Calif. costs money -- even for a big-city mayor who was once Assembly speaker. But give Villaraigosa some credit. He raised his campaign cash the old-fashioned way: shaking down special interests for contributions. What his counterparts in 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. did was even less noble. Unlike the mayor, who used private contributions, the school board simply dipped into the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) general fund, and came up with more than $400,000 to oppose Assembly Bill 1381. And it will spend much more fighting the legislation in court. So while Villaraigosa has used private money to pursue the people's will -- education reform -- the LAUSD is using public money to thwart it. Advantage, Antonio -- on policy and on ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a . |
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