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Cruz v. California
April 23, 2015
Judge denies motion to intervene at high schools accused of 'sham' courses
A request for academic intervention alleged classes without content.
Jane Meredith Adams
February 7, 2015
Lawsuit seeks instruction intervention at 5 high schools
After winning a court order to improve academic conditions at one Los Angeles high school last fall, lawyers in a class action suit asked Thursday for an additional court order to compel the state to improve instruction time at five other California high schools in the 2015-16 school year.
Jane Meredith Adams
December 17, 2014
State to fight lawsuit by low-income students
State finance officials last week granted the California Department of Education $3.4 million to fight a lawsuit that demands the state fix disruptive conditions in some high-poverty schools where students allegedly are being denied the fundamental right to an education.
Jane Meredith Adams
October 14, 2014
Lawsuit alleges students' instruction lacking
Jefferson High School in Los Angeles – where some students waited two months for their class schedules and were assigned to classes with no content, given menial administrative tasks or sent home early – may be an extreme example of lost instructional time but it is not an isolated case, according to a class-action lawsuit.
Susan Frey And Jane Meredith Adams
October 8, 2014
Judge orders state to fix troubled L.A. school
A state judge Wednesday ordered the California Department of Education to intervene at a south Los Angeles high school where some students have spent eight weeks in classes during which they received no instruction.