Thomas Peele
Investigative Reporter at EdSource
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6 days ago |
edsource.org | Thomas Peele
News Brief Friday, May 9, 2025 — 8:39 am The Los Angeles City Council this week agreed to cut speed limits down to 15 MPH on 343 streets near 201 schools, the L.A. Daily News reported. The issue of slowing down drivers in school zones became urgent after a fatal crash in 2023 near Hancock Park Elementary School, the newspaper reported. A mother was killed and her six-year-old daughter was left in critical condition after they were hit by a car.
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edsource.org | Thomas Peele
News Brief Friday, May 9, 2025 — 8:41 am ULCA’s medical school is accused in a federal class action lawsuit of using race as a factor in admissions despite state and federal bans on affirmative action, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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redding.com | Thomas Peele
Thomas PeeleEdSourceWhile some districts commit millions of dollars to resource officers, others struggle to find funding. Trinity County, population 16,500, has cobbled together a school policing program using a state grant funded by taxes on marijuana sales. The grant helps pay for two resource officers who cover nine widely spaced districts across the county’s 3,208 square miles, most of it national forest.
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edsource.org | Thomas Peele
News Brief Friday, May 2, 2025 — 7:39 am The Fresno Unified School District spent $75,000 on a national search for a new superintendent only to choose an insider, the Fresno Bee reported. Misty Her, the district’s interim superintendent since May 2024, has worked in Fresno Unified for more than 30 years as a bilingual instructional aide, elementary teacher, vice principal, principal, assistant superintendent, and instructional superintendent. She was named a deputy superintendent in March 2021.
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yahoo.com | Thomas Peele |Daniel Willis
Policing experts say that discipline is the responsibility of school administrators, not law enforcement.Many California school districts’ contracts for policing services do not prohibit officers from involvement in routine student disciplinary matters, despite the federal government’s guidance that administrators are responsible for handling those issues, an EdSource investigation found.
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RT @EdSource: The contracts @EdSource obtained show districts spending at least $85 million on school resource officers. In many districts,…
RT @EdSource: It can be a big challenge to pay for resource officers. In rural Trinity County, a grant funded by a tax on cannabis pays for…
RT @EdSource: Many school districts pay cities and counties millions of dollars a year to put law enforcement officers on campuses, moving…