FROM LAUSD Office of Communications:
For Immediate Release January 28, 2009
#08/09-203
BOARD OF EDUCATION VOTES TO NAME NEW HIGH SCHOOL
AFTER MEXICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS
Los Angeles – The Los Angeles Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to name the first high school to be built in more than 85 years in East Los Angeles after two Mexican [...]
Archive for January, 2009
LAUSD Names High School After Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez
Posted in Education on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
State auditor slates meetings on Prop. 11
Posted in Civic Participation on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
California’s state auditor will hold a series of public meetings starting Jan. 26 to get comments on regulations needed to implement Proposition 11, the redistricting reform measure approved by voters in November.
The proposition takes away legislators’ power to draw their own districts and turns that duty over to a 14-member citizens commission. The auditor plays [...]
2009 State of the State
Posted in Economic Empowerment on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday the Governor gave a sobering State of the State address where he called on the legislators to put aside their ideological differences and continue their work on the state budget. The Governor stressed $42 billion deficit and the fact the California, the eighth largest economy in the world, would be insolvent by the end of [...]
Stand Up Against Pay Discrimination for Women
Posted in Economic Empowerment on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The National Women’s Law Center Needs Your Help
The House has passed both the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act — crucial bills that provide women with critical tools to challenge pay discrimination. The Senate is expected to vote early next week on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act and we need [...]
Romero drops out of race, backs Cedillo
Posted in Civic Participation on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since Congresswoman Hilda Solis was appointed Labor Secretary, many local officials have been mentioned to run for her vacant seat. The list included Senator Gloria Romero, Senator Gil Cedillo, Board of Equality Member Judy Chu, or State Senator Ron Calderon.
Today, Senator Romero announced that she was dropping out of the race and backing Senator Gil [...]
Madera Unified case is changing elections throughout California
Posted in Civic Participation on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The heavily Latino district’s voting system made it hard for Latinos to win school board seats. A judge ruled it violated the state Voting Rights Act. Other cities are taking note.
By Mitchell Landsberg
January 4, 2009
Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Madera, Calif. — You would never mistake Jesse Lopez Jr. for a revolutionary. Soft-spoken, with a shy [...]
Housing Push for Hispanics Spawns Wave of Foreclosures
Posted in Economic Empowerment on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By SUSAN SCHMIDT and MAURICE TAMMAN
The Wall Street Journal
California Rep. Joe Baca has long pushed legislation he said would “open the doors to the American Dream” for first-time home buyers in his largely Hispanic district. For many of them, those doors have slammed shut, quickly and painfully.
Mortgage lenders flooded Mr. Baca’s San Bernardino, Calif., district [...]
