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Tuesday will be the first day of on-campus instruction for about 40% of elementary students in the country’s second-largest school district. For many, I expect the tears will be tears of joy. Most LAUSD grade schoolers are returning to a campus they already know and love; their parents are both eager and anxious to see their children back in the classroom.
April 20, 2021
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The UCLA CarbonBuilt team, led by Gaurav Sant, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, won the prize in the competition’s track for technologies related to coal-fired power generation. By mitigating the carbon footprint of concrete, the team’s invention could eventually be a major step in the global battle against climate change, Sant said. (Also: Forbes and PA Media.)
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Los Angeles County residents rate education among the worst of several factors affecting their quality of life, displaying one of the biggest drops in recent years among parents of children in public schools, according to a UCLA survey.
More than three-quarters of parents in the county with children ages 5 to 18 believe their children have been “substantially hurt” academically or socially by being away from school and taking part in distance learning for months.
“It’s a big number,” said Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, which publishes an annual Quality of Life index in partnership with the public-opinion firm FM3 Research. “It’s not counterintuitive; it’s intuitive, but the number surprised most of us and it was across all the demographics.”
2021-04-19 18:36:09 GMT2021-04-20 02:36:09(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
LOS ANGELES, April 19 (Xinhua) Residents of U.S. Los Angeles County have been deeply affected by the COVID-19 crisis, with significant numbers citing the pandemic s adverse impact on their finances, health and children s education, according to a survey released Monday by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Los Angeles is the most populous county in the United States with more than 10 million residents. The county s Department of Public Health has confirmed more than 1.22 million COVID-19 cases and 23,623 related deaths as of Sunday.
The UCLA s annual Quality of Life Index showed up to 54 percent of residents in the county reported that they or a close family member or friend had tested positive for the coronavirus.