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With latest budget crisis averted, LA Unified eyes next challenge: passing Prop. 30 tax extension

Real financial hardship in LA Unified could be the result this November, school board President Steve Zimmer said, if voters do not pass an extension of Proposition 30, a package of tax increases for state schools and health care plans likely headed to the general election ballot. By Kyle Stokes, KPCC

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• Ex-LA Mayor Riordan fined by Ethics Commission, City News Service
• In elementary education, ‘doing science’ rather than just memorizing it, PBS
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