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Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is a public school district in Los Angeles, California, United States.It is the largest public school system in California in terms of number of students and the 2nd largest public school district in the United States, with only the New York City Department of Education having a larger student population.
San Francisco Unified School District ( SFUSD ), established in 1851, is the only public school district within the City and County of San Francisco, and the first in the state of California. [3] Under the management of the San Francisco Board of Education, the district serves approximately 49,500 students across 121 schools.
e. The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. The first walkout occurred on March 5, 1968. The students who organized and carried out the protests were primarily concerned with the quality of their education.
San Francisco trailed 5-0 in the fifth Wednesday night at Pittsburgh before winning 9-5 in 10 innings, then rallied from down 6-2 in the eighth Thursday behind Chapman's three-run homer to beat ...
Laurence Allen Elder (born April 27, 1952) is an American conservative political commentator and talk radio host. Elder hosts The Larry Elder Show, based in California.The show began as a local program on Los Angeles radio station KABC in 1993 and ran until 2008, followed by a second run on KABC from 2010 to 2014.
The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco.The system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, which also includes the separate E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves heritage streetcar lines, and the Muni Metro modern light rail system.
The construction of the California High-Speed Rail system is an undertaking by the California High-Speed Rail Authority. The project is expected to span about 800 miles (1,300 km) and will be completed in two phases: Phase 1 (totaling about 500 miles (800 km)) runs from the metropolitan area of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California ...
Lake Merritt is a large tidal lagoon in the center of Oakland, California, just east of Downtown. It is named after Samuel Merritt, Oakland's mayor in 1867–1869, who had the lagoon dammed turning the tidal lagoon into a salt water lake. It is surrounded by parkland and city neighborhoods. It is historically significant as the United States ...