LA schools ask parents to pay for athlete buses

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(07-29) 08:16 PDT Los Angeles, CA (AP) --
The nation's second-largest school district is asking the parents of Los Angeles student athletes to help pay for buses to high school away games.
The financially distressed Los Angeles Unified School District says games could be canceled if enough money isn't raised.
It's the first time the district has asked for parent help in transporting athletes to games. The goal is to cover $650,000 slashed from the athletics transportation budget.
Campus athletic directors will request a $24 per-student contribution at the beginning of

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by Frederick M. Hess • Jul 29, 2010 at 9:56 am
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Just spent the past couple days with a top-shelf group of young researchers that I hosted in a partnership with my good friends at the Fordham Institute. Together, we held the first gathering of the Emerging Education Policy Scholars (EEPS), which brought to D.C. about two dozen young scholars and thinkers to discuss how research does and should impact ed policy. Visiting with the fellows was a pretty neat roster of policy mavens, ed journalists, and reformers that included USA Today's Greg Toppo, Bellwether's Andy Rotherham, DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, Ed Week's Deb Viadero, ace Hill staffer David Cleary, former IES chief Russ Whitehurst, Department of Ed's Judy Wurtzel, ConnCAN's Marc Porter-Magee, and the Gates Foundation's Ebony Lee.

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