Governor’s About Face On Education Spending; All Dried Up With No Place To Go; Prominent Korean American Dies In Los Angeles; Iraqi Political Power Struggle; Rose Bowl Preview
Governor’s About Face On Education Spending
In an attempt to patch up his troubled relationship with the State’s education community, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed spending $4.3 billion more for public schools next fiscal year. The governor's plan, which will be formally released next week as part of his state budget proposal, would provide $54.3 billion in the 2006-07 fiscal year for kindergarten through 12-grade education and community colleges. It would be the most ever spent on public schools in California if the legislature approves and would raise spending to $11,000 per child. Larry and HD Palmer, Spokesman for the California Department of Finance, and Scott Plotkin, Executive Director of the California School Boards Association talk about the plan and the change in the Governor’s policy.
All Dried Up With No Place To Go
A Kern County initiative petition that would ban the depositing of Southern California’s sludge within its borders, has qualified for a June election. If approved by voters, Los Angeles and Orange County may be forced to truck hundreds of thousands of tons of sludge a year to Arizona. Larry Mantle talks with guests about the measure that would stop LA and OC sludge from being dumped in Kern County. Larry’s guests include Dean Florez, Democratic State Senator from Senate District 16 in the Central Valley, Dr. Bob Ghirelli, Director of Technical Services for the Orange County Sanitation District, and Omar Moghaddam, Division Manager for Regulatory Affairs for the Los Angeles Department of Sanitation.
Prominent Korean American Dies In Los Angeles
A decorated World War Two and Korean War veteran who was dedicated to helping L.A.'s Asian communities has died. Retired Army Colonel Young Oak Kim died at age 86 last Thursday of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He helped found organizations that helped Asian immigrants and civic foundations, including the Japanese American National Museum, the Korean American Museum and Go For Broke, a nonprofit that preserves the history of Asian-American soldiers who served in World War II. Larry talks with Christine Sato–Yamazaki, Executive Director and President of the “Go For Broke” Educational Foundation.
Iraqi Political Power Struggle
As talks begin about drawing down American troop levels, analysts are starting to wonder who will control an independent Iraq? Some observers see a long, bloody conflict—a civil war—in Iraq’s future. Some say an ongoing power struggle is inevitable. Others say it’s already started. Larry talks with Iraq experts about the attempts by Sunnis, Kurds and Shi’ites to form a coalition government and the unfortunate possibility of an all-out civil war in Iraq. Larry talks with Borzou Daragahi, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times Baghdad bureau, Reuel Marc Gerecht, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Michael E. O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
Rose Bowl Preview
It’s time for the big game. Larry talks to Gary Klein, co-author of Conquest: Pete Carroll and the Trojans' Climb to the Top of the College Football Mountain. He has covered college and professional sports for the Los Angeles Times for 20 years, and Larry also talks to KPCC reporter Adolfo Guzman Lopez.