Mar 22 2012
California Teacher of the Year Performs Her One-Woman Play: Makin’ Us Whole: A Tribute to Literary Activists
The board of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted recently to close a half billion dollar budgetary shortfall by proposing to increase class sizes, cut after school programs, early childhood education and adult education. The plan, a worst case scenario, would go into effect, only if voters refuse to pass a $298 annual per capita parcel tax. Both …
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Florence Avognon is a literacy specialist teacher at Phoenix Academy and the Los Angeles County Office of Education, focusing primarily on kids that nearly everyone else has given up on, such as those residing in drug rehabilitation facilities. She has also taught at Central Juvenile Hall, teaching incarcerated youth. Florence Avognon, herself a product of the public school system, raised by a single mother, and who benefited from the welfare …
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Moments before 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was overtaken by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman and shot dead, he was on the phone with a friend. The attorney for the Martin family made her story public yesterday, days into Trayvon’s controversial killing that has sparked national outrage. Trayvon’s 16-year-old friend, whose name is being withheld, said he told her on the phone that …
Dozens of protesters in Davis, California on Friday shut down an office of the giant biotechnology company, Monsanto, to draw attention to genetically modified foods. The Occupy Davis action was fueled by claims that Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds could potentially disrupt the world’s food supply. Like most critics of GMOs, the protesters are demanding the labeling of genetically modified foods …
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents. 
