Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Cash-starved schools turn to Hollywood for budget relief | California Watch

Cash-starved schools turn to Hollywood for budget relief | California Watch

Cash-starved schools turn to Hollywood for budget relief

From Megan Fox to Owen Wilson, cash-strapped schools are increasingly getting moral and financial support from Hollywood.
According to USA Today, school districts from Lawndale to Glendale are drumming up extra money by renting their campuses as locations for movies, TV shows, commercials and even truck parking. FilmLA, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit group who helps filmmakers cut through red-tape to get access to film sites, say they have

AG audit questions college president's kitchen renovation

Renovations made to CSU Sacramento President Alexander Gonzalez’s kitchen, paid for by the university’s charitable auxiliary organization, were made for the president's personal benefit and "created an appearance of impropriety," according to an audit by Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office.
The audit looked into three transactions by University Enterprises Inc., CSU Sacramento's nonprofit auxiliary

Are 10,000 kindergartners driving whooping cough epidemic?

Seven of the 12 California counties with the highest whooping cough rates also have above average rates of kindergarten students showing up to school with "personal-belief" vaccine waivers, a California Watch review of state data shows.
The state’s emerging whooping cough epidemic took center stage yesterday when a state public health officialcalled on those caring for infants to get vaccines and to immunize children.
Clearly, the ailment is reaching epidemic proportions not seen since the 1950s, according to state public health