EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.Highlights from some of our more important editorials this past week. To read the editorials in full, please visit our Web site at www.dailynews.com. Survival of the fittest Some charter schools fail, and for that they pay a price. Indeed, the occasional failure of a school is actually proof that the nascent charter school movement as a whole can succeed. Schools that work Breakup breakup The division of a company into separate parts. The most famous breakup to date was the 1984 division of AT&T (formerly, American Telephone & Telegraph Company). This breakup was intended to increase competition in the communications industry. is only part of what 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. needs. Whoever becomes Los Angeles' next mayor must use his bully pulpit bully pulpit n. An advantageous position, as for making one's views known or rallying support: "The presidency had been transformed from a bully pulpit on Pennsylvania Avenue to a stage the size of the world" to revive efforts at genuine educational reform. Turnout, turnoff Elections provide a window into the state of a society, and the results of Tuesday's mayoral primary suggest democracy has still not yet come of age 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. . Spending addiction As the old saying goes, the first step to kicking an addiction is admitting you have a problem. By acknowledging California's spending problem, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] has put the state on the road to recovery. |
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