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. The numbers game Although district officials dispute a report that 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. has a 50 percent dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human rate, the LAUSD's own data appear to back up the claim. Nonperformance pay In most lines of work, salary bears some connection to the employee's value. Not so for California's lawmakers, who gladly accepted a 12 percent raise Monday. Tookie's case If Tookie Williams wants to convince Californians he shouldn't be executed for four murders in 1979, then the man who founded the Crips gang needs to come clean and concede con·cede v. con·ced·ed, con·ced·ing, con·cedes v.tr. 1. To acknowledge, often reluctantly, as being true, just, or proper; admit. See Synonyms at acknowledge. 2. his guilt. Future shock California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). could be short 100,000 schoolteachers in the next decade. It's imperative that education officials start coming up with a plan to recruit and retrain re·train tr. & intr.v. re·trained, re·train·ing, re·trains To train or undergo training again. re·train . |
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