PUBLIC FORUM.Getting votes Re ``Hahn wants schools say-so'' (April 20): The panacea of education 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. is not Jim Hahn. With his now wanting to appoint three members to the school board, he is only looking like another charlatan char·la·tan n. A person fraudulently claiming knowledge and skills not possessed. charlatan (shar´l with a magic one-size fits all cure for our schools. LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) has much room for improvement, but unfortunately it has become the focal point focal point n. See focus. of every opportunist op·por·tun·ist n. One who takes advantage of any opportunity to achieve an end, often with no regard for principles or consequences. op running for office in or around our city. People with little or no knowledge about educational methods or content now are becoming authorities on ``how to get votes by coming up with plans to better our educational system.'' So sad that both candidates are only blowing smoke for votes. - Ira Kaplan Woodland Hills Villaraigosa whining Re ``Hahn wants schools say-so'' (April 20): Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. had an opportunity to do something positive about the schools in L.A. while he was speaker of the Assembly. He failed to do so. Now he whines about Mayor James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California wanting to be proactive with his school plan. Councilman Villaraigosa has the second-largest high school in the nation, Roosevelt High, in his district. It is one of the worst-overcrowded high schools with 5,200 students. I would think that since LAUSD president Jose Huizar endorsed Villaraigosa for mayor, together they would have come up with a solution to help solve the problem. Sadly, they have not. - Monica Harmon Los Angeles Channeling his dad Re ``Hahn, Villaraigosa clash in bitter debate'' (April 18): The debate between James Hahn and Antonio Villaraigosa was a debate Villaraigosa should have passed up. James Hahn has the personality of a wet washrag and Villaraigosa has really had his way in the other debates. I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what happened on Sunday. It looked like James Hahn's dad showed up in his place and it looked like a complete makeover of James Hahn. - Frank Jacobs Sylmar Rude dudes Re ``Hahn, Villaraigosa clash in bitter debate'' (April 18): I just read the story about the latest attack and insults hurled back and forth by L.A.'s favorite role models, Mayor Jim Hahn and Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa. How ironic that these two illustrious leaders saved their most vicious name-calling to date for their appearance at the Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance The Museum of Tolerance is a multimedia museum in Los Angeles, California, with an associated museum in New York City, designed to examine racism and prejudice in the United States and the world with a strong focus on the history of the Holocaust. . - Walter N. Prince Chatsworth LAUSD's challenges Re ``Hahn's best pitch'' (April 19): What L.A. schools need are solutions to their during-class challenges: overcrowded o·ver·crowd v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds v.tr. To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms. classrooms, inadequate supplies, deteriorating facilities, out- of-date textbooks, filthy bathrooms. What L.A. residents need is more police officers. Not higher taxes. But with James Hahn's proposal to raise the sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. rejected by voters and the City Council, he resorted in his State of the City speech to outright theft: appropriating the council's alternative proposal, developed by mayoral front-runner Antonio Villaraigosa and Councilman Greig Smith, to add 359 new LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officers without raising taxes, and claiming it as his own. - Marcy M. Rothenberg Porter Ranch Student lottery Re ``Nursing washouts'' (April 18): Overhauling the admission criteria admission criteria the rules for the establishment of comparable groups in any comparison of differences in the performance or responses of the group. The criteria may be permissible age group, the previous productivity, the freedom from disease and so on. in the nursing schools at the community college level is overdue. Attrition rates are a symptom of unprepared students. The lottery system for choosing students among applicants to nursing programs does not distinguish between students who perform highly and students who merely meet (GPA GPA abbr. grade point average Noun 1. GPA - a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted and prerequisite) requirements. Previous legislation providing a selection process for admission to nursing programs has been opposed (AB 2177) by the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office for not providing equal opportunities for all students. The current process is not meeting the needs of the community in addressing the critical nursing shortage and should be corrected. - Erin K. Core, RN Northridge Skills to teach Re ``Nursing washouts'' (April 18): As a student in a nursing school program, I am aware that to enter these programs a student must meet a certain GPA. Some students have been forced to leave the program due to unrealistic expectations beyond the requirements for entry. Pierce College's efforts to, ``identify potential obstacles and to help students overcome them'' are rare and to be commended. Unfortunately, those schools whose 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 is higher may suffer from a teaching staff that may be qualified to nurse, but lack the necessary skills to teach. - Kathleen Barker Saugus Reducing gridlock Gridlock A government, business or institution's inability to function at a normal level due either to complex or conflicting procedures within the administrative framework or to impending change in the business. Re ``Vroom with a View'' (Business , April 19): It's true, there's a sucker born every minute This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. . Why else would anyone in their right mind spend a quarter-million dollars on a V-12, 550-horsepower automobile when the average speed on any freeway is 12 mph? Galpin has sold more Fords than any dealer in the world and our bumper- to-bumper traffic validates this claim. Apparently they're now trying to help reduce gridlock by spending $2 million to lure one fool to make an appointment to part with $250,000 for an Aston-Martin instead of selling 10 walk-in customers a $25,000 Ford. With traffic planning like this, who needs Caltrans? - Robert L. Rosebrock Brentwood Obesity hysteria Re ``Californians gain 180,000 tons of heft'' (April 18): The government should not be a part of this debate. Every single person who is overweight has made the choice to be that way. The truth is that there is always a point when they could choose to put down whatever food they might be putting in their mouth and make the decision to lose weight. I am a large woman. I take full responsibility for my weight. I think there are external forces that might have contributed to me choosing to stay this way, but ultimately it has been my choice. For the government to decide that they want to jump on the bandwagon of the obesity hysteria just goes to reinforce my distrust and disgust for the government. - Christina Hayward Los Angeles Mideast folly ``Bush budget betrays veterans'' (Viewpoint, April 17): My son joined the U.S. Army in September 1999, served overseas in Korea for 15 months, was honorably discharged in December 2003 and returned to Texas to return to college. In May, he will have earned an AA degree and has been accepted to the University of Texas, Arlington. Last week, he received a telegram telling him he has until May 30 to report to Fort Sill, Okla., where he will be re-activated and sent to Irag for 18 months. So after sending over 1,500 soldiers to die in Irag, overextending National Guard units, the Army is now re-activating military personnel who have already spent three or four years on active duty. My son has proudly served his country, now it's somebody else's turn. - David Allec Palmdale Bread and water budgets Re ``Tradition, ritual, part of Conclave'' (Their Opinions, April 18): Daniel Wakin writes that the longest conclave conclave In the Roman Catholic church, the assembly of cardinals gathered to elect a new pope and the system of strict seclusion to which they submit. From 1059 the election became the responsibility of the cardinals. took two years and nine months, resulting in the election of Pope Gregory X Pope Gregory X (c. 1210 – January 10, 1276), born Tebaldo Visconti, was Pope from 1271 to 1276. Biography Born in Piacenza, he spent most of his ecclesiastical career in the north, in the Low Countries. . Not surprisingly, Gregory wrote new rules to speed things up. If no one was elected within three days, rations were cut to one meal a day. After five more days, cardinals would be restricted to bread and water. How unique. Does anyone in Sacramento dare to initiate these rules for passing a budget on time? - Max Duran Acton |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion