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LA High school sports: Follow-up on paying-to-play and other notes

The commenter in my last post here noted that athletes paying to play sports is nothing new. In football, for...
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Varsity Times Insider: LAUSD athletic section considers charging kids to play sports

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The LA Times' Ben Bolch stays in touch with Los Angeles Unified School District commissioner Barbara Fiege, and the...
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FYI: The Los Angeles Unified School District voted to lay off 5,000-plus employees on Tuesday

Protests outside last Tuesday's LAUSD budget meeting, where the board voted 4-3 to layoff thousands. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)In my last post, I guess I...
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As the LAUSD school board contemplates its decision, some thoughts on school boards in general

I meant for this to be an introduction to my interview a few days ago with Barbara Fiege, but it sort of took on a...
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LAUSD budget crunch: interview with district athletic director Barbara Fiege

So a state of limbo prevails at L.A. Unified, where the school board took up Superintendent Ramon Cortines’...
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LAUSD budget crunch: interview with Barbara Fiege, part 2

I don’t know how many articles about budget crunches I can possibly read (or write, for that matter) before...
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Los Angeles high school sports: 8,000 employee layoffs, but how many of them athletics coaches?

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Two items to cover today: First, I revisit a Bay Area athletics budget crisis I covered last year, and second, I...
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Los Angeles high school sports: Will unemployment rise for students as well as adults?

No, this is not the blog where predictions are made regarding whether the economy has hit bottom yet; like everyone else, I just hope that it has....
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Los Angeles high school sports: a vast but shrinking landscape

So here it is: the Los Angeles high school sports scene. I’m new to it, you see; I’ve done all my...
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