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From the LA Times:

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Elementary Schools Post Lower Scores
After several years of gains, state test results in math and English either declined or showed no improvement at a majority of campuses.
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Fire Reveals Gap in Safety Laws
Koreatown building, site of a blaze that injured two, is one of more than 100 residential towers not required to have a sprinkler system.
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Lawsuit Filed Over Immigrant Medical Costs
Plaintiffs want Los Angeles County to enforce a law that requires immigration sponsors to pay for patients' healthcare.
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Seniors Get Meals Despite Glitch
A payment delay threatens delivery of food for 320 recipients in Compton, but an emergency council session saves the day.
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American Terminal at LAX Evacuated
Passengers were evacuated and 27 departure flights were delayed Monday after a passenger with a small knife was mistakenly allowed through a security checkpoint at the American Airlines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, officials said.
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Hospital's No-Show Nurses Close ER
County health officials declare an 'internal disaster' at King/Drew over the weekend.
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Disagreements Between Agencies Could Delay Hahn's LAX Proposal
County commissioners say mayor's blueprint fails to comply with 1991 plan on noise and safety.
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From the Daily News:

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LAUSD flunks exit exam
Only 42 percent of Los Angeles Unified School District 10th-graders passed both parts of the new California High School Exit Exam that is now a requirement for graduation, according to state test results released Monday.
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Elementary scores show little change
After years of strong gains for the LAUSD, standardized test scores released Monday show that academic progress among the district's elementary school students has leveled off.
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Baca would open jail, hire guards
Sheriff Lee Baca said Monday he would reconfigure Los Angeles County's jail system and hire more deputies if voters approve a 0.5 percent sales measure on the November ballot.
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Arnold promises reforms
IONE, Calif. -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed on Monday to clean up the state prison system, saying he and his team will do whatever it takes to end the corruption and mismanagement plaguing the troubled Department of Corrections.
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City wants answers on elections
Los Angeles city officials are asking a proudly unorthodox panel that is supposed to represent parts of Northridge to City Hall to explain a nearly year-old election in which dogs, but not cats, were allowed to vote.
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Services for firefighter are Friday in cathedral
Services are scheduled at 10 a.m. Friday at the Cathedral Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles for rookie Firefighter Jaime Foster, who died Saturday while leaving a house fire in Encino.
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Charters lagging behind?
The first national comparison of test scores among children in charter schools and regular public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools.
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Commission has criticism for LAX plan
A little known county agency with limited jurisdiction has become the latest forum for critics of Mayor James Hahn's proposed $91 billion modernization plan for Los Angeles International Airport.
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Fed standard urged for all driver's licenses
WASHINGTON -- The 9-11 commissioners told Congress on Monday they want the federal government to set standards for getting driver's licenses to make it harder for terrorists to fake their identities.
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From Senator Boxer
Boxer Urges Fellow Senators To Pass Transportation Security Bills In Light Of 9/11 Commission Recommendations
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), at today's Commerce Committee hearing on the 9/11 Commission Report's transportation recommendations, renewed her call to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to take up several bipartisan homeland security bills awaiting Senate action and called for additional steps to keep Americans safe.
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