This month, Houston’s Rice University started offering a free online Advanced Placement biology class for anyone who has access to the Internet. That means high school students from Indiana to Indonesia could all be learning the fundamentals of homeostasis at the same time in the same virtual classroom this fall. Read more...
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The California state government has two main ways of monitoring health insurance rates: One, Covered California can “negotiate” rates with health insurance companies, and two, the California Department of Insurance or Department of Managed Health Care can “review” rates and point out rate hikes they find unreasonable, although they have no executive power to strike the rates down. Read more...
Proposition 45 will give one politician in Sacramento the sole authority to regulate health care, including control over copays, deductibles and even coverage. This proposition creates more costly bureaucracy and unnecessary government oversight. Read more...
Editor’s note: The submission below was originally sent by members of UCLA’s Committee on Diversity and Equal Opportunity to faculty in the College of Letters and Science on Oct. Read more...
Los Angeles’s public school system may finally be getting the attention it needs – even if it is stemming from negative events. Los Angeles Unified School District’s Superintendent John Deasy resigned on Oct. Read more...
Photo: John Deasy, former Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent, resigned this month after serving for almost four years in the position. His tenure was marked by both successes, such as an increase in graduation rates, and mistakes, including a failed iPad program. (Courtesy of Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)
Since the Westwood Village Food Truck Lot was established in July, on the corner of Gayley and Le Conte avenues, it has received excessive backlash from local business groups, such as the Westwood Community Council. Read more...
There’s a tendency, when thinking about college admissions, to see Advanced Placement classes and high standardized test scores as a silver bullet – get a high SAT score and the world is at your fingertips. Read more...
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