Sheriff s Civilian Oversight Panel Wants Outright Ban On Deputy Cliques laist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from laist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
CORONAVIRUS: K-12 EDUCATION
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April 15, 2021 8:00 AM
A bulletin board at LAUSD s John W. Mack Elementary School on April 12, 2021, the day before kindergarteners and first graders began returning to class. (Kyle Stokes/KPCC/LAist)
California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom have urged public schools to extend their school years, hoping that additional days in the classroom will make up for teacher-student interactions lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.
But in the L.A. Unified School District, even district leaders acknowledge that their proposal to start the upcoming school year a week early and shave a week off winter break will be a tough sell with parents.
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April 15, 2021 4:20 PM
Lisa Vargas (c) at a Sheriff s town hall in East L.A. Her son Anthony Vargas, was killed by sheriff s deputies in August 2018. (Frank Stoltze/LAist)
The Civilian Oversight Commission Thursday called on L.A. Sheriff Alex Villanueva to impose an outright ban on deputy cliques inside his department. The unanimous vote came amid increasing concerns that cliques some call them gangs are violating the civil rights of people inside and outside the department. Some have been accused of engaging in violence.
Under pressure to act on the issue of cliques, Villanueva last summer issued a policy that forbade deputies from joining any group that violates department policy or the law. Members of the commission said the sheriff didn’t go far enough. “It hasn’t worked,” Commissioner Rob Bonner said. “They still exist.”
LAUSD Won t Participate In Statewide Testing For Second Straight Year laist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from laist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Black feminist scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs was inspired to write to "The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped A Nation" to explore the civil rights movement through the lens of what she calls "the woman before the man."