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  • CA: Davis backs school bill urging clean restrooms

    09/11/2003 9:11:36 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 41 replies · 234+ views
    Mercury News ^ | 9/11/03 | Nicole C. Wong
    California kids may be in for a big break. A bathroom break, that is.Gov. Gray Davis, the self-styled education governor now clinging to his job, announced on Wednesday that he'll sign a bill telling school districts that clean restrooms should be a top priority when schools dole out maintenance money.The hope is that students will no longer shun schools' sticky, smelly and sometimes overflowing bathroom stalls. They'll be able to concentrate on learning the Pythagorean theorem rather than wondering whether they'll make it home before wetting their pants -- or worse.But critics from the political left and right say this...
  • CA: School bill would help immigrants (illegal ..errr.. undocumented immigrants)

    05/06/2003 8:40:13 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 24 replies · 351+ views
    Mercury News ^ | 5/6/03 | Jessie Mangaliman
    Humberto Retana wants to spare other undocumented immigrants the anxiety he felt as a high school sophomore in Texas when he couldn't attend college because he was in the United States illegally. Retana found peace of mind when he became a citizen through an amnesty program. Now he is working with others in the Bay Area on a more targeted but just as controversial solution: the Student Adjustment Act, a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would grant legal status to any child of undocumented immigrants who is pursuing a college education in the United States.``I asked my...