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LAUSD officials say students need traditional calendar
- 08-10-2010
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By Connie Llanos/Los Angeles Daily News
Most Los Angeles Unified students still have a month to hang out all day at the mall, get lost in marathon texting sessions with friends or pass a hot summer day at the beach. But students at Sun Valley, Arleta and Polytechnic high schools had to start the school year early Monday as part of a new "balanced traditional" calendar. Adopted by the LAUSD school board in the spring, the new schedule is designed to help students retain more of what they learned from the previous year by shortening the summer break. (more...)
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