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Teacher training tough to assess
After students leave schools of education, and after years of reforms, institutions often have no way of ascertaining if their programs produced high-quality teachers.
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The Sacramento Squeeze
How the California Assembly speaker squeezes the political "juice."
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Interest groups play big role in campaign funds
Democrats in the California Assembly turned to interest groups with big stakes in state government decisions to finance their campaigns and fund donations to races targeted by Speaker John A. Pérez, a CIR analysis shows.
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Eating away at school nutrition
Schools are working to curb the sale of junk food and tighten their nutritional standards. But those health efforts are undermined when students can leave campus at lunch to eat whatever they want.
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VA backlog follows veterans to the grave
Internal documents show more widows and widowers are left waiting for burial benefits and survivors’ pensions.
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Pedestrian deaths going unpunished
The majority of drivers who hit and kill pedestrians rarely are charged, face jail time or have their licences suspended, even when they are found or suspected to be at fault, a review of court and police records found.
