February 28, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Deal near for SJSU stadium
Mercury News 2/28/07
By Jon Wilner and Barry Witt
San Jose State University President Don Kassing and developer Lew Wolff met Tuesday and agreed to the framework of a deal to build a multipurpose facility next to Spartan Stadium.
Coed found dead in submerged SUV
Enterprise-Record 2/28/07
By Greg Welter
Authorities looking for Biggs resident Veronica Guzman were about to announce her disappearance as suspicious Tuesday when a Butte County sheriff's helicopter spotted the young woman's battered vehicle upside down in an irrigation canal.
Editorials/Commentary
The truth about pensions
Press-Telegram 2/28/07
Keith Richman, a moderate Republican who was among a very few politicians in California willing to tell taxpayers the truth about the state's impending public pension disaster, no longer is in office. But fortunately, he's still telling the truth.
California News
L.A. Board of Education adopts discipline policy aimed at reducing suspensions
L.A. Times 2/28/07
By Angie Green and Joel Rubin
The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday adopted a new, districtwide discipline policy aimed at decreasing the number of students suspended and kept after school for misbehaving.
Schools fall behind federal goals
L.A. Daily News 2/28/07
By Naush Boghossian
California schools face an uphill battle in their effort to meet federally mandated achievement goals, with some 700 schools facing reorganization for repeated noncompliance with the No Child Left Behind Act, a study released today says.
National News
Demand for English Lessons Outstrips Supply
New York Times 2/27/07
By Fernanda Santos
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — Two weeks after she moved here from her native Brazil, Maria de Oliveira signed up for free English classes at a squat storefront in this working-class suburb, figuring that with an associate’s degree and three years as an administrative assistant, she could find a good job in America so long as she spoke the language.
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