BOE Moves To Give Teachers, Students Time To Adjust To New Common Core Standards
One set of California school standards has temporarily fallen victim to another.
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One set of California school standards has temporarily fallen victim to another.
The board voted at a meeting in Sacramento on Wednesday not to produce an Academic Performance Index for the 2014-15 school year. The index uses student results on statewide tests to rank schools and to identify those that need improvement.
GOP Rep. Al Pscholka of Stevensville made the remark on the House floor Wednesday in support of bills that would eliminate a requirement that people installing, making or repairing a residential chair lift be licensed elevator contractors.
Police are searching for a 22-year-old art student who didn't show up for her job at a Southern California campus where she also attends classes.
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department has set aside land to bury police dogs.
U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson of San Francisco acted Tuesday after a court-appointed overseer reported that conditions have substantially improved since 2006.
The lawsuits were filed in state court by the ACLU's Northern and Southern California affiliates. They say that the departments refused public records requests in May and July regarding their use of Stingrays, a suitcase-sized device tricks that cellphones in an area into electronically identifying themselves and transmitting data to police instead of the nearest phone company's tower.
The initials spray-painted on the sign, ALF, are those used by the Animal Liberation Front — a group that long has accused KFC of animal cruelty. The group most recently claimed responsibility for a fire in February 2014 that badly damaged a KFC in Upper Hutt, New Zealand.
A new report says California faces a greater than 99 percent chance of being rocked by a strong earthquake in the next 30 years.
Los Angeles County health officials are warning doctors to be on the lookout for patients reporting unusual vision problems, after clusters of syphilis that cause blindness have been reported on the West Coast.
The announcement leaves two clear contenders for the NFL's return to the area, both in cities just outside Los Angeles: A stadium in Inglewood proposed in January with the backing of St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke, and a project in Carson announced last month with the joint backing of the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers.
An AMBER Alert issued for a missing child in Southern California has been canceled.
A 25-year-old Tahoe City man has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter in a crash on Lake Tahoe's north shore that killed a passenger in his SUV over the weekend.
A man sought in the fatal shooting of a woman in her Elk Grove, California, apartment has been arrested in Mexico and turned over to U.S. authorities at an Arizona border crossing.
Police in Orange County arrested a 26-year-old man who allegedly stole a tip jar from a coffee shop and then assaulted a customer who confronted him about the theft.
