Low Parental Voter Turn-Out at LAUSD Schools; Orange County Journalists Roundtable; George Mitchell's Report on Performance Enhancing Drugs in Major League Baseball
Low Parental Voter Turn-Out at LAUSD Schools
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa claimed victory yesterday as election results confirmed that teachers and parents at three high schools and four middle schools voted to join the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools. "Today we can truly say the votes are in and the status quo is out," Villaraigosa said at an afternoon news conference outside Markham Middle School. But only 12% of the parents eligible to vote in the election did so. Is that really a mandate? Larry discusses why so few parents participated in this important decision regarding their local school with KPCC reporter Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, Bill Ring, of Transparent, a parent networking organization, and Jose Lara, social studies teacher at Santee High School.
Orange County Journalists Roundtable
Larry talks with William Lobdell, City Editor of the Orange County Edition of the LA Times, Orange County Register senior editorial writer and columnist, Steven Greenhut, and OC Weekly staff writer Gustavo Arellano, about the latest news events and developments in Orange County.
George Mitchell's Report on Performance Enhancing Drugs in Major League Baseball
The long awaited report on drug use in Major League Baseball is being released today. Sources say that many all-stars, MVPs, and future hall-of-famers will be named. The report is also expected to say that players and the league did too little to prevent wide-spread use of sport-enhancing drugs. Larry discusses the report's findings and what they could mean to the future of Major League Baseball with Elliott Almond of the San Jose Mercury News, David Carter of the USC Sports Business Institute, and Jason Sosa of Rice University's Sports Management Department.