Los Angeles Unified offering free online tutoring to get students back on track
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LOS ANGELES â Families across the country have gotten used to welcoming teachers inside their homes. But the transition to online learning has been filled with glitches, setting back learning for students nationwide.
âMissed assignments were happening, so the grades started dropping a little bit, said Gina Demirchyan, a parent in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Demirchyan was working down the hall from her 5
th grader, and having a full-time job meant she couldnât always be there to keep her daughter on track.
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Every time you think you’ve seen every possible way the U.S. healthcare system lets people down, along comes some new outrage that leaves you slack-jawed and shaking your head.
This is one of those.
Linda Williamson’s 76-year-old mother has Alzheimer’s disease. She still lives in her San Fernando Valley home with the help of a caregiver. Williamson has two notarized power-of-attorney documents to handle her mom’s finances and healthcare.
“She can’t drive,” the Granada Hills resident told me. “She can’t do her own shopping. She doesn’t pay her own bills. She doesn’t always remember the names of her grandkids.”
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Hazel Palacio, a 12-year-old Los Angeles girl went missing in February, and her family and school officials believe she is in extreme danger. (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children)
LOS ANGELES, CA A 12-year-old Los Angeles girl missing for months is believed to be in danger, and her family, police and her teachers are asking for help finding her and bringing her home safely.
Hazel Palacio went missing on Feb. 28 in the Downtown Los Angeles area, said Sarah Kim, a school psychologist with the Los Angeles Unified School District. We re desperate for any leads, or help with not letting Hazel s case go cold, Kim said.
4 new principals named in the Bethlehem Area School District
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The Bethlehem Area School Board approved these new principals Monday, April 26, 2021: (top row) Dr. Theodoro Quinones, Lisa Young, (bottom row) Laurie Sage and Amanda Hinkel.Courtesy Bethlehem Area School District
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The Bethlehem Area School Board approved four new principals Monday night, who should all be familiar faces to district students and families.
The openings at Freedom High, Northeast Middle and Governor Wolf and James Buchanan elementary schools are all being filled by current district employees.
The board in March approved the retirement of four principals with many years invested in the district: Freedom’s Michael LaPorta, Northeast’s Joseph Rahs, James Buchanan’s Jill Moran and Miller Heights’ Deborah Roeder.
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To the editor: I was initially unimpressed with the 2018 hiring of Austin Beutner as superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. But through his handling of the pandemic and watching his humanity at work, I became a supporter of his. (“When will L.A. Unified schools get some stability at the top?” editorial, April 21)
However, the problem has always been that he was not an educator, and the jury will always view his tenure as that of an educational outlier. Classroom achievements never really took off because of factors such as the teachers strike and then the pandemic. I’m certain that the stress of these events took its toll and made Beutner decide to opt out at the conclusion of his contract.