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How low voter turnout impacts LAUSD schools
Over the last 50 years, local election turnout plummeted from a about 50 percent to less than 10 percent of eligible voters. KPCC

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LAUSD board seat election could determine the fate of charter schools
The spending on both sides has turned the tussle in District 5 into a widely watched proxy war between the teachers union and the charter-school lobby. LA Weekly

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S.F. schools’ iPad handout pivots from L.A.’s $1.3 billion scandal
From 350 miles north, San Francisco school officials watched the $1.3 billion iPad program in Los Angeles schools implode. San Francisco Chronicle

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Authors of California vaccination bill fast-track proposal
Opponents criticized the maneuver as a way to avoid public debate. Associated Press

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Abstinence-only curriculum is not sex education, judge rules
The state law requires school districts to make their sex-education programs “age-appropriate.” San Francisco Chronicle

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California: Bill to limit how districts investigate school residency
Welcome to the squishy world of school residency investigations. Contra Costa Times