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Monday, May 12

Disasters In Asia
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Larry talks about the earthquake in China, and the ongoing crisis in Myanmar with Barbara Demick, a Bejing coorespondent for the Los Angeles Times, Dean Hirsch, President of World Vision, and Steven Matthews, Relief Communications Manager for World Vision.

Bill Requires Foundations To Reveal Diversity Data
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AB 624, the Foundation Diversity and Transparency Act, is a controversial bill authored by California Assemblyman Joe Coto, which would require private, corporate, or public operating foundations with assets over $250 million to collect certain ethnic, gender, and sexual orientation data pertaining to its governance, staff, and grant making. The bill requires this information to include the racial, gender, and sexual-orientation composition of the board of directors or trustees, foundation staff, and the number of grants awarded to specified organizations serving ethnic minority, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. In addition, AB 624 would require these foundations to disclose this information on their websites and in their annual reports. The bill is coming before the Business, Professions & Economic Development Committee today in the California Assembly. Larry speaks with Orson Aguilar, Associate Director of the Greenlining Institute, and David A. Lehrer, President of Community Advocates Inc.

Middle East Update
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Larry gets an update on the heavy fighting in Lebanon and on the latest news from Iraq with Borzou Daragahi, Middle East correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, and Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor State Department correspondent.

A Year In The Trenches With Teach For America
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The Teach for America program has been installing top-tier college graduates as teachers in bottom-wrung public schools since 1990. Teach for America began as a Princeton student's senior thesis project, and now has nearly 20,000 applicants each year for twenty-five-hundred spots. In her book "Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America," freelance journalist Donna Foote follows four young corp members through a year of the program at schools throughout the country. One of those schools is Locke High School in Los Angeles. Larry speaks with Foote about the Teach for America experience and whether it truly helps bridge the divide of educational inequities in our country.

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