Weekend Roundup
Ok, folks, for those of you who didn't read the Breeze over the weekend (which is very, very few of you I'm sure), here's a summary of school-related stories that appeared in print and respective links to each online:
1. Principal Anna Barraza, who since fall has been leading Carson-based Dolores Street Elementary School, was the subject of picketing and protests on Friday. The school's teachers and many parents say she's a lemon who should be squeezed off campus; Barraza rebuts that the teachers are just afraid of change. Check it.
2. Crime reporter Larry Altman had an update on the fate of a former Wilmington Middle School vice principal who was accused of inappropriately touching a 14-year-old student.
3. I put together one story previewing two issues in tomorrow's election: the Hawthorne School District's $20-million bond attempt and Centinela Valley Union High School District's parcel-tax effort. Both will affect many of the same voters, since both districts have schools inside Hawthorne city limits.
4. Our colleague Connie Llanos from sister paper the Daily News did this feature about veterans finding the GI Bill isn't so much living up to its promise.
5. And finally -- five stories should be plenty to get you going -- our School Notebook piece today is about St. Lawrence Martyr school third-grader Katie Kaessinger's almost accidental raising of more than $6,000 for earthquake-relief efforts in China. Sweet kid, sweet story. Awwww...