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...first BCS standings will be released, The standings, based on a complex formula giving equal weight to the polls, computer ratings, strength-of-schedule and won-loss records, will determine who plays in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 4. The standings will be updated weekly, with the final list set to be released...
After soliciting friends and classmates, they compiled an e-mail list of more than 20 interested people. Though still waiting for confirmation of their status as an official student group, the Society began to hold events earlier this month...
Josefina Aguilera confronted public education's sad secret on her first day. "I came into the classroom," recalls the newly hired kindergarten teacher at 68th Street Elementary School in South Central Los Angeles, "and all I saw were crayons, some books and construction paper." Aguilera made a list of what was not there: puzzles, art supplies, puppets, records, posters and a bulletin board. Knowing the school could not pay for these items, she went shopping. "I spent about $300," she estimates. "My husband didn't know...
...from history. Chicago's started as a bulk-delivery warehouse. Then SHOPA retailers toured Crayons to Computers in Cincinnati and liked the mock-retail approach. As a result, Los Angeles opened as a "free store," Chicago was converted to one, and Crayons to Computers got on SHOPA's gift list...
Most stores serve schools where at least 70% of the student body is impoverished. Teachers must carry an access card and a shopping list endorsed by their principal. Odom recalls teachers "literally crying," knowing their kids "would have a notebook for each subject." At the ribbon cutting in Los Angeles, Monique Allen, 10, of the 68th Street school, says she long suspected one of her teachers had deep pockets because the school "didn't have the kind of paper she put in my math folder." Now it does...