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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Supt. Ramon Cortines and other top officials visit the homes of some of the 20,000 students who failed to show up this year. About a dozen teens began working out plans to return to school. Los Angeles' top education official went door to door Monday to urge teens to return to school, netting about a dozen students with the effort and drawing attention to a growing problem.
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
L.A. Unified Supt. Ramon Cortines stands by a one-year deal made with the teachers union to give assignment preferences to laid-off instructors, including those with less seniority. Veteran substitute teachers, who have recently lost teaching assignments because of an effort to help laid-off full-time instructors, won't be getting the work back any time soon, Los Angeles school officials confirmed...
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Opinion L.A. (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
The Times editorial board laments the departure of Guy Mehula, the man who oversaw the recent surge construction for the Los Angeles Unified School District. That program operated with an efficiency and competence rarely found at LAUSD, the board asserts, and those qualities are threatened by Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines' reported plans to supervise the unit more closely: It's not a coincidence...
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Euractive (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Meanwhile, Spanish MEP Cristina Gutierrez Cortines (EPP) said water is not a priority in the EU as "politicians are afraid to touch something that is related to everything". She said they would prefer to regulate something well-defined, like emissions from industry, avoiding "politically dangerous" subjects such as land or water.
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
... services division and district headquarters, prompted by policy changes made by Supt. Ramon C. Cortines that threaten to dismantle the awarding-winning division."There's an old saying: 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it,' " said Thomas A. Rubin, a consultant to the district's bond oversight committee, which is overseeing expenditure of more than $20 billion in voter-approved school construction...
