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Many school buses still don’t have seat belts
California is one of six states to require buses to have passenger belts, and the only one that requires shoulder-to-lap belts. Orange County Register

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North Valley Military Institute readies kids for college with discipline
NVMI, a charter school and the only campus of its kind in the Los Angeles Unified School District, bills itself as a college prep school. Los Angeles Daily News

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SoCal after-school programs to receive White House honors
Two Southern California after-school arts programs will be honored Monday at the White House. KPCC

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Honduran youth finds welcome at Oakland school for immigrants
There are nearly 100 students at Oakland International High School who traveled across Central America on their own in recent years. New York Times

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Common Core redoes the math
New standards bring hard questions and daunting instructional adjustments. Education Week