Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday
I'll be appearing on "McIntyre in the Morning" on KABC AM 790 radio Wednesday morning, at approxiamately 6:40 a.m. I'll be discussing the "La Academia Semillias del Pueblo" and its coverage here in the blogosphere. Hope you tune in. You can also listen via the internet by clicking here.The Daily News reports (including a related editorial) that the Orange Line transportation system in the Valley is seeing a tremendous growth in ridership. Rising gas prices have a lot to do with that. The ridership is growing so fast, some transit experts feel the system could reach capacity years sooner than the MTA anticipated. Interestingly, one solution to that is to convert the busway to a light rail system. Which is what the system should have been to begin with.
A proposed $7.5 billion budget for the coming school year was announced Tuesday by Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Roy Romer.
Mayor Villaraigosa and NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue will hold a news conference Wednesday to discuss an upcoming league trip to Los Angeles.
Cynthia Ruiz was re-appointed to the Board of Public Works (where she serves as President) Tuesday. You may remember that Cynthia was unceremoniously dumped by Mayor Hahn from the board when she supported Antonio Villaraigosa for Mayor. But to the victor belongs the spoils, and upon Villaraigosa's election, Cynthia was back on the BPW.
Check out Franklin Avenue's latest rate-a-restaurant, this time they sample the famous weiners at Pink's Hot Dogs. If you've never been to Pink's, especially at 3 in the morning, you're missing out.
Here In Van Nuys travels southeast to Studio City to check out a very ugly Long's Drug Store, that was once a very ugly Rite-Aid, and before that, the legendary Thrifty's Drugs. Indeed, I remember that day in 1970 when my Auntie Flo - who had lived south of the boulevard since the 1940s - took me to that Thrifty for my first ever 5 cent ice cream cone.
Los Angeles City Nerd, with the help of Google Earth shows the original four corners of the City of Los Angeles. Three of the four corners have plaques to note their fabled past. Maybe we should all get cracking on putting in the fourth.
City of LA Meetings for Wednesday
8:30AM - COUNCIL: Arts, Parks, Health & Aging Committee Meeting
8:45AM - COUNCIL: Trade, Commerce and Tourism Committee Meeting
9:30AM - BPW: Board of Public Works
10:00AM - COUNCIL: Los Angeles City Council
12:30PM - LACC: LA Convention & Exhibition Cntr Authority Mtg
2:00PM - COUNCIL: Transportation Committee Meeting
3:00PM - COUNCIL: Rules & Elections Committee Meeting
5:30PM - PORTOFLA: Wilmington Waterfront Development Subcommittee Meeting
6:30PM - ENSNC: Woodland Hills Warner Center Board Meeting
7:30PM - ENSNC: WHWCNC SpecialMeeting6-14-06
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 6/14/2006 12:10:00 AM
63 Comments:
Instead of a football team, what our city really needs is several thousand one-way tickets to Oakland for all of our "Raider Nation" fans!
McIntyre mentioned this morning he will publicizing another major aspect of the separatist charter school story in the next day or two, I assume after the research has been completed. Great; don't let up! Good for ratings, probably, but nevertheless this latest example of multiculturalism run amuck on the public dime needs to be exposed. Without media pressure, I doubt there will be any real leadership on this issue from LAUSD officials or the mayor's office.
Keep up the good work Doug & crew; this is a debate LA -- and the country-- needs to have.
Like, what the hell could Mayor Sam possibly know about the Charter School.
Geez, these people are really grasping at straws. The desparation to cover this non-issue shows it's run its course.
Another Valley-ite chimes in on an Eastside school!
Maybe you'll take a second between gushing over McIntyre, Mayor Sam, o ask this question:
Why in almost two full weeks of radio coverage -- dozens of hours so far -- have they yet to bring anyone on who can intelligently, and without venom or agenda address what school performance ratings and figures actually mean, and how to use them?
Surely there's ONE impartial academician that can weigh in -- even if they don't want to take sides re: this charter school.
The rant continues "it's a failing school" and yet they haven't a CLUE how to actually interpret what school testing scores can and can't reveal, especially over such a short period of school operation. Self-confessed math-moron McIntyre continues to willfully compare apples to orangutans, to boost ratings, taking cheap, ignorant shots.
Someone needs to hook him up with a "tutor" that can keep him from continuing to fail his audience in this area.
The shock will eventually come to these "shock" jocks of local radio when LAUSD reviews this school using the appropriate standards when its charter is up for renewal, and determines that their performance overall is improving, taking ALL factors into account (size, makeup, growth, ratios of English learners, new-to-comtinuing student percentages, socio-economic factors, stated academic goals, scope of curriculum, parental and community involvement and support, and 15-20 other nuanced results that "Borg" McIntyre his "resistance is futile" assimilationists haven't the slightest clues about).
Rating the complexity of school performance on API numbers alone, especially over the first few years of a school's existence, is like buying your "dream" car through the mail - based solely on its estimated MPGs (sight unseen).
KABC and its listeners are the blind leading the dumb blondes.
leave the school alone. you have never even been there.
That was it?
That's all Mayor Sam gets for being one of McIntyre's "go to sites?"
Pfffffffft!
(I'm going back to bed)
Hey I got just as much time as Tim Russert did.
I'm surprised you didn't list anything about the radicals at the South LA Farm. I would hate to be at city council today. They will be there once again yelling at Perry.
Next thing you know Mayor Sam you'll need a publicist.
Missed Mayor Sam's debut.
AHHHHHHH. What did I miss?
"Academia Semillas del Pueblo"
tolteca said...
Due to the fact that you are not capable of checking your facts before you open your piehole, Now we know why you are not a "real" journalist with a real life. People of your mentality need to focus on your own problems. Like the fact of how your family situation is at this time. You are so pathetic and with low self-esteem. Minnie Ferguson has ALWAYS been the principal of Academia Semillas del Pueblo and always will be! I don't need to waste my life away trying to crush other people's dreams because I wasn't capable of accomplishing my own. You seem to have that problem. My last thought is think about Karma. It does exist!
Beverly Pancake
June 13, 2006 11:05 AM
Anonymous said...
TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2006
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Charter school not racist!
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As a proud parent and staff member of Academia Semillas del Pueblo, I urge you to check on your facts before running articles regarding things about which you have no clue.
As I am reading your article on our school with information provided by Doug McIntyre, the facts are simply not correct! For one, I am American, and a person's race should have nothing to do with their right to a decent education. I have two children here, and I am an employee here as well. Teaching a person about his or her culture has nothing to do with racism. The only racist I see in this situation is KABC!
Parents have a choice to bring their children here as we are a public charter school, and there is no recruitment process based on race or cultural beliefs. If you are a parent who cares about your child's education, then you are welcome here, plain and simple.
Beverly E. Pancake
http://worldnetdaily.com/letters.asp
June 13, 2006 4:02 PM
Anonymous said...
Beverly,
As a parent you are free to choose your child's school, even if it has lower test scores than the neighboring schools. You have a right to choose to have them learn their "indigenous Native" culture, language,and history.
What most people are objecting to is a taxpayer supported school that espouses a separatist credo that is evident in the founder's words, and in the subtext on the school's website. In my curiosity, I visited the website. I read the indigenous myth that was posted on the website about how "Eagles Learned to Fly." It was a clearly teaching that to "fly" you must be with your own kind. I was astounded that this fable would be taught to children in an "inclusive" school.
Supporters of this school are upset that it has come under scrutiny, but if this charter were to substitute "White" or "Christian" for "indigenous Native", then how would the public,the media and elected officials react? Instead, the critics of a failing institution are labelled "racists."
Similarly, people are choosing to overlook or downplay the significance of the social/political movement behind this school. It's all about "La Raza."The Race" in English. Or "La Raza de Bronze"The Bronze Race."
This politcal mindset results in the following motto:
"Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada."
It's really not too difficult to understand why citizens would be concerned in this case.
June 13, 2006 6:29 PM
Anonymous said...
Beverly Pancake is staff member at Semillas? Orale!
Beverly get back to work pronto porfavor! Start your chant.
"Marcos is my God, Marcos the Eagle, Marcos is my God, Marcos the Eagle"
June 13, 2006 7:40 PM
2:48
Semillas API similar schools score was in decile 1. Not good.
9 of 10 similar schools scored higher.
The similar schools score takes many socio-economic factors into account.
Compare to Glen Alta Elementary just over the hill in Happy Valley; similar schools rank 9.
Semillas is a failure in terms of academic performance.
8:49 (The only SIMPLE analyses of complex issues are in the minds of simpletons).
Try to keep up. . .
How many years has the "Happy Valley" school (which is not REALLY that close, hombre. . . and also in an area where most residents are still long-term and homeowners) been there?
(You see, I KNOW the area... you're not talking to Valley pundits like McIntyre and Higby now).
How long has it been at relatively the same SIZE, with minimal flucuations from year to year? Plus or minus 5-10% at best, right?
What is the ratio of NEW students (not yet affected by THAT school's teaching that much) to contining ones that took the tests in question?
These areas are some of the MOST critical aspects of assessing school performance in its first years). Has ANYONE in the media examined this, or even ASKED the question of people who DO know? Nope! Not THAT interested in the real answers.
In most existing/continuing schools, NEW students taking the test for the first year at that school as a ratio to continuing students i.e., students for which THAT school can, or HAS to take some credit for their performance is about 1 or 2 "new" for every 20 continuing (5-10 percent).
An influx of ONE new student per 20 taking the test, who might be a low performer (which is what "new," voluntary schools draw in non-affluent areas) or new immigrant and non-English speaker, will not affect the test scores in any appreciable way - any more than Einstein Jr. transferring into the 3rd grade there would. There are enough numbers in the continuing column to overbalance the poor (or even GREAT) performance of the new few.
In the case of a school that is growing rapidly, 50+ students per year during it formation period, that ratio immediately changes to an incredible 10-12 "new" students for every 20 "continuing"
Even dramatic achievement in the first few years among continuing students would be washed away in the averages of a new student influx heavily skewed towards non-English speakers.
If your having trouble with the numbers, lets put it this way... If EVERY kid who was in the school had moved from a B- average to a B+ (MANY points on the API), but one-third or more on the new, combined student body is the result of an influx of C & D students, your stats go down. No question.
Kids with you from day one could ALL be improved, and the API people would NEVER know (nor would KABC care to know).
Try it. .. suddenly add 200-250 new, immigrant, non-English speakers (the percentage equivalent) to Glen Alta's stats for the next three years and then check back with me on how that "9" is faring.
You focused on ONE aspect of a dozen that 2:48 mentioned (because it WAS the only one that you either understood, of that you knew was included.
You get an "1" out of 10 in rational analysis -- and that's being kind.
FACE IT. KABC wanted to sink this school BEFORE it even knew its current API stats. The very first day on air they used TWO YEAR old API scores, not knowing (or caring) what the most current ones were, or how they were arrived at. For all they knew even API performance could have been up (a minute yardstick, regardless, see above).
The "performance" issue was as bogus a straw man argument as the "no whites and blacks there rant" (which they've since slinked away from like rats, having been proven wrong). ALL of the straw man arguments are simply a cover for overt racism and xenophobic hysteria.
And you're playing along on the "home edition" of the game.
Mayors Sam & Frank, Our quarterly newspaper, Beachwood Voice, is getting edgier and needs you! Wait till the Summer issue comes out to see just how edgey we have become. But I would love to converse off-blog with either or both of you about brief quarterly city-hall skirt lifting by the Mayors - call the column what you like and take the hits that should be taken. My team believes we've been playing Nice Guy while getting beaten about the head and shoulders - the Spring issue tells a lot and the summer issue will knock your socks off but your presence could make a difference. Write to me!
8:49
In case you missed it in that last guy's long-winded post, the only "similar" schools that make a fair comparison, would be those of similar socio-economic variables, started about the same time, and growing at about the same rate. Even then, there are probably other mitigating factors.
API takes into account school size, but not the other factors. That's left to the pros to hand calculate the differentials. Charter and other small schools that are not growing considerably during a testing profile have a distinct advantage over those that are, and often outperform even larger schools on API due in large part to smaller class sizes and requirements for parent involvement in order to gain entry to a voluntary, sometimes experimental school situation.
They should be the last ones fairly compared to the school in question.
10:07
It seems you are the "impartial" expert that this blog has been looking for.
Give Semillas 10 more years, then compare. Those low scores are due to the low performing students leaving their neighborhood school and transferring into Semillas. Plus those parents are happy.
API Similar Schools Ranking:
"Comparing with similar schools
The PSAA also set up a mechanism for comparing a school to its peers based on the challenges they face because of student background and some school characteristics. To prepare the Similar Schools list, a School Characteristics Index (SCI) is computed for schools of each type (elementary, middle, high school). The components include student ethnicity, student mobility, average class size, free/reduced-price meals, parent education level, percent of English learners (formerly "Limited English Proficient"), percent of teachers who are fully credentialed or on emergency permits, and multi-track year-round calendar."
Keep spinning and soon you will see that the Earth revolves around you.
I've read the explanation -- often, in my line of work.
Scroll back and you'll see it does not in any way refute anything having to do with rapid growth of the school and the year-to-year API comparisons, either intermural or extramural.
Schools of consistent size and with a set number of grade levels cannot and should not be compared to schools rapidly moving from one size to another and adding grades.
A K-5 school averaging 300 students (this year, last year and the year before), with a high percentage of English-learners has still had multiple years to address the English language skills of the vast majority of those same students. They remain "English learners" on the scale for years, however, until considered proficient, during which time - ideally - the majority improve in performance.
News elementary schools adding large numbers of English learners each year (at each grade level, AND adding new grade-levels each year), even if the "percentage" of them in the school stays relatively static in part as a result of the overall rapid growth, have still not had multiple years to address those language needs for the vast majority.
In short, the majority of MY "50 percent" English-learners in a rapid growth school, are most likely to be in their FIRST year of English instruction (regardless of grade-level), while the majority of YOUR "50 percent" in an established school will likely be in their 2nd, 3rd, or 4th year.
That is not "spin", it is common sense and personal observance, untinged by paranoia and a vigilante agenda.
Ten more years of this pedagogy, courtesty of Mr. Aguilar:
"The importance of Nahutal is also academic because Nahuatl is based on a Math system, which we are also practicing. We teach our children how to operate a base 20 mathematical system and how to understand the relationship between the founders and their bodies, what the effects of astronomical forces and natural forces on the human body and the human psyche, our way of thinking and our way of expressing ourselves."
Who are "the founders"???
What is this man talking about???
"the effects of astronomical forces...on the human body and the human psyche"
WOW!
"...and that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights..."
Go ask the 9th District Circuit Court who "our creator" is, as referenced in all the core documents of our nation, while you're at it!
That should be fun. . .
Marcos Aguilar is a BRUJO.
Minnie Ferguson his BRUJA.
The Aguilar's are far from POOR or middle class.
Rich Socialist have homes in Mt. Washington,Los Angeles,and Alhambra. We didn't disclose out of state property yet, did we?
How much of the MILLION DOLLAR LOANS and GRANTS went to HOME OWNERHIP?
If all this analysis is even partially true, and now we know that McIntyre's people watch this blog, will ee see them moving away from the performance argument, as well? If they think someone who knows better can make them look bad form misinterpreting?
They have stopped saying there are only hispanics in the school, a bid claim the first week.
What's left? If not poor performing and no more "separatist" in actual practice than any other school in that neighborhood, just more one-line extracts from charter documents taken out of context?
That's going to get old. They ran the "white water fountain" analogy until the tape wore out.
Well, that's a new spin, for sure.
Can't prove "racist" or poor performing, so lets run an unfounded embezzlement "suggestion" up the flagpole.
If that's what KABC is looking into, as the fallback, I'm tuned in, just for the laughs.
Isn't Marcos Aguilar the founder?
How about his wife? They could be "the founders" in this context.
Sounds kinky to me.
Hey, KABC, after fraud and embexxlement doesn't pan out, what's next, molestation, resume-gilding, illegal parking (save that one for Mayor Sam)?
Might as well run the gauntlet - all's fair in rating (and race) wars?
People can find those documents easily. "Out of context" is what people often utter when they can no longer hide the ugly truth.
And the academic performance at Semillas still sucks! That could be because the California Standards Tests do not measure astrological knowledge, Nahautl, or racial self-esteem, couldn't it?
Mayor Sam, any truth to the rumor that KABC didn't spend time with you on the charter school because someone called in a bomb threat against the blog?
I think I saw something suspicious sticking out from underneath Archie Bunker's recliner three threads back.
Define "still sucks" in quantifiable terms that haven't already been refuted by your intellectual betters, boy.
"Don't confuse me with facts, I already ordered my 'Semillas Sucks' bumper stickers, and the deposit is non-refundable."
Mayor Sam - Marcos and his crew must think your blog is important cause they've got their cut and paste crew astroturfing full time here now.
This is all good news for AV. Thanks to McIntyre, Marcos and Mayor Sam, no one is paying attention to Antonio's high priced dinner for the NFL on the city's dime. (Don't eat too much of the carne asada okay Bernie?)
Good point you didn't know you were making, 12:12.
Students at specialized charter school often come out of the experience with extensive knowledge that standard tests don't measure, and that serves them in many aspects of life beyond academia.
"Well-rounded" is something most university's look at almost as much as academic performance. In a toss-up between similar-performing candidates, the "linear" learner loses.
Marcos's "people" ain't here - KABC does trawl for ideas, however.
Bad day at "Borg" radio!
There is no doubt that parents are happy with their school. In particular, a few parents have indicated how advanced in Math their children are. While these anecdotal accounts are inspiring, the facts presented by the California Standards Tests describe a an ineffective program. As a parent, you can discount this information, but as citizens we have a right and an obligation to question the performance of any public school.
12:19
Don't talk to your father that way. Didn't you learn to respect at Semillas?
If you wish to understand what "sucks" means in this context, just visit the California Dept. of Ed. site and see the reports for yourself.
The "linear learner loses", hmmmm...
That's why they have to assure some sort of quotas at Cal because those loser linear learners are blasting the SAT scores through the roof.
And where do you get the idea that the local schools do not teach the arts and self and social awareness curricula?
12:27
Read 10:07, and get back to us when you've caught up... if you're still beating the "ineffective program" tom-toms drum based on your 1-inch "snapshot" view of a more complex issue than anyone here can claim to understand, then you may want to buy that bumper sticker from 12:12, second-hand (as explained in 12:19), because he's probably moved on to worrying about elephants at the zoo by now.
You too, 12:34.
If any of your immigrant grandparents or great-grandparents had been judged by the standards you're ignorantly setting in this instance, they would have all been stuck riding the "short buggy" to school after being declare retarded because they couldn't learn English the first month off the boat.
"Marcos's 'people' ain't here"
See, that's what I like about the way the school's leaders have handled this, even after the dustup.
They would no sooner be "here" trying to justify themselves to a bunch of howling xenophobes, most of which couldn't find El Sereno if you started them out at one end of Huntington drive, than they were willing to justify themselves to an ill-informed, right-wing reactionary radio performer who blathered against them for a whole day using outdated information.
Why should they?
They justify themselves to the people that they need to justify themselves to: 1) parents of children at the school; 2) the local community they serve; and 3) LAUSD, as the chartering organization -- all of which seem to be fine with what they're doing. Parents have locked arms, the local neighborhood councils and other organizations have been trying to help the school find permanent property so they can stay in El Sereno, and LAUSD says they ARE teaching to their charter document. Period.
Here's a fer-instance... most polls in this country still say the majority of "taxpayers" believe there was some intelligent design in the creation of the universe. So, do you think for ONE minute KRLA, one of KABC's talk competitors (run by a religious organization), would have been tolerated going across town to the school where McIntyre's kid goes to school, to demand that they EXPLAIN on-air why they're teaching STRAIGHT theory of evolution, with NO "creation" aspects. Even though that's not what most "taxpayers" still believe?
Planting a badge of "taxpayer" on every rabid radio caller and blog poster from every corner of the city (and county and state, fer god's sake) doesn't make them someone every public institution HAS to be accountable to, when and where the angry mob demands "accountability."
"Charter school laws provide a ready mechanism for opponents of any charter school to express their views in order to influence the continued chartering of the school" - Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa (June 8)
. . . and the "ready mechanism" sits at LAUSD headquarters, and nowhere else (we DO still elect the board there, at least for now).
Correction: If you never went to Pink's before 1991, when they di-worse-ified the menu, you really missed something.
You're not missing anything now other than a 45 minute wait. I say, turn it into an urban farm...
LAUSD sucks too. Victims of the leftist liberal educational establishment.
Get your Nahuatl dictionary out.
According to this paper written in 2005 by Bush's top economist, immigrants from Mexico learn English much more slowly than immigrants from other countries.
Bush of course would never let him say this publically, since it would seem a bit dissonant alongside the Bush immigration "reform" plan.
Historically, groups that immigrate in large numbers and settle in and near each other do change over to the host countries language slower.
(We owe part of our existence as a nation to this). Remember you history? English pilgrims came here from religious freedom AND because their children were starting to switch to Dutch and forget their English where they had settled temporarily.
Many east coast families still had members speaking mostly Yiddish and Italian, with almost no English skills, 2-3 generations after the first members arrived, because there were large enclaves speaking that language, and theyu could survive without english -- Like East L.A., parts of Miami, now.
It means nothing about the local schools, or the people of that race or ethnicity. It's a numbers game.
So you're with me then, 1:26. If we are to keep Mexican immigrants from languishing in their cultural and linguistic conclaves, we need to either encourage their acquisition of fluency in English or to greatly reduce immigration from Mexico.
Or we could send Archie down there as an ESL teacher to get everyone ready for prosperity.
I'm with you, as long as the calendar says "1896" on it!
But who would hire all the busboys, roofers, car washers, strawberry pickers and lawn mowers come 2006?
And half of California's legislature would be out of a future.
"If we are to keep (them) from languishing. . ."
I can hear vanquished totalitarian despots from across the centuries saying "attaboy, don't let those people decide their own fate."
Who died and made you master of ethnic assimilation?
Here's another possibility. Let's let people decide for THEMSELVES how they want to live, what they want their children to speak, and how much and har far they want to get "into" the "mainstream" culture (if such a thing still exists), as long as they're willing to take responsibility for the outcomes.
This could catch on... let's call it "liberty" and see if we can base a WHOLE fucking country on the concept.
NAH, nevermind, it'll never catch on. Then someone will invent "taxpayers" and they'll think they have the right to decide all this for anyone who benefits from any aspect of the taxes, no matter how small.
"Parents have locked arms, the local neighborhood councils and other organizations have been trying to help the school find permanent property so they can stay in El Sereno, and LAUSD says they ARE teaching to their charter document. Period."
Show me a unanimous signed letter from El Sereno Neighborhood Council, Chamber of Commerce, local LAUSD school administrators, and LOCAL policitians.
THEN I WILL BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
"immigrants from Mexico learn English much more slowly than immigrants from other countries."
It's true. Es Verdad.
We busy lirning nahuatl.
Only Mechistas can speak for the gente. All the rest of you living in Alhambra and such are nothing but vendidos. I bet some of you are business owners making $ off the blood and sweat of the border brothers. Just like my boss; drives a Lexus and pays us minimum. Some of you may even work for the man, taking gringo dollars while providing comunal education. Why don't you comune some of those gringo dolares with me. From those according to their ability, to those according to their needs, right? I'm in the Heights and I'm in need. I'm only on dial-up.
Doubting Tomaso at 5:45 can do his own damn research (it's there).
And what the heck does C of C have to do with leadership? Just because you can hang out a shingle to sell somebody something, and pay dues to other business owners doesn't make you anybody's "leader" -- you're just another tchotchke and processed food seller, like Ronald McD.
http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/nw_national/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19860_4762533,00.html
STUDY SURVEYS TEEN DRUG-USE, SUICIDE HIGHEST AMONG HISPANICS
Substance Abuse Higher among Those More Attuned to American Culture
By Associated Press - June 9, 2006
ATLANTA - Hispanic high school students use drugs and attempt suicide at far higher rates than their white and black classmates, says a new federal survey that has the experts somewhat perplexed.
More than 11 percent of all Hispanic students - and 15 percent of Hispanic girls - said they had attempted suicide, according to the report issued Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The white and black rates were about 7.5 percent.
Hispanics also reported much higher rates of using cocaine, heroin, Ecstasy and methamphetamines, and their use of condoms was at lower rates than the other population groups.
The CDC survey of nearly 14,000 U.S. high school students has been conducted every other year since 1991. Results reported Thursday were from last year's survey.
Questionnaires go to students in grades 9-12 in public and private high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Researchers got parental permission for each student who participated.
[H]ispanic students had other problems.
About 36 percent of Hispanics reported prolonged feelings of sadness or hopelessness, slightly higher than previous years.
In contrast, about 28.5 percent of black students reported such feelings in the 2005 survey, about the same as two previous surveys. And about 26 percent of white students reported such feelings, down slightly from 2003 and 2001.
In the category of drug use, one in eight Hispanic students said they had done cocaine, one in 10 had done Ecstasy, one in 11 methamphetamines, and 1 in 28 heroin.
[The study showed] that substance abuse is higher in Hispanic kids who are more at home with American culture.
Great work, Doug!
Keep on it! Don't forget to connect the dots between Villaraigosa (it was his old district), Huizar, (it was his district and he was school superindendent in 2001 when the school got it's charter), and Marcos Aguilar. All three of them are Mechistas and Reconquistas.
Check out the $90,000 salary of Aguilar.
Check out the fact that Aguilar and his wife own TWO owner-occupied homes. It's only legal to have ONE owner-occupied homes.
Check out the $7,000,000 funding to the school. That comes out to about $35,000 per illegal.
Check out the funds that are being illegally diverted to individuals at the school.
Check out the LA Raza Development Corp. $185,000 loan on the school property.
And this is just for openers!
They all need to be in prison if these facts are true!
To Beverly Pancake:
Take your racist, anti- American, Mecha school back to Mexico where you all belong.
We American taxpayers will not pay for your fucking third world crap. We are sick of your bullshit...you, the fucking squatters on Alameda, and you lying, cheating scumbags!
6:09
Poor baby!
Check out the $7,000,000 funding to the school
FUNDS ARE GIVEN BY????
DON'T JUST POST NONSENSE
GIVE ME FACTS
11:02
You really should get some help. The 1950s ended... well, a long time ago.
Prozac, lithium, intense counseling, something.
Call someone, please, before you hurt yourself.
I agree, 11:58. It's not the 1950's - it's 2006 - and the third world is here to stay, like it or not.
Cynthia Ruiz = the City Hall MILF
MILF? WHAT DAT DIS MEAN?
Comandante Marcos Aguilar oneonone interview with O'reillllly today.
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