Mayoral hopefuls Hahn and Villaraigosa focus on law enforcement and transit planning. Beginning this week, The Times expands its state, regional and local news coverage in a newly designed California section. Schools give that name to 'passing periods' between classes and count them as learning time. Some call the practice a sham. The East L.A. academy has been teaching children since 1914.
Plan calls for dozens of the advisory bodies across the city.
Mayor Riordan, who has embraced the concept, must sign off. A former gang leader has been arrested by the FBI in Las Vegas for allegedly shooting one man to death and trying to kill another on March 31. Five entities, including L.A. County and L.A. Unified School District, are accused of trying to get a special deal at the expense of the rest of the state. An instructor at an El Monte campus is the county's first to buy a home using a state program that encourages teachers to keep working at troubled schools. The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday adopted a new math plan that will require all students to take algebra in the eighth grade next school year.