Bruno & Birmingham High: Odd Bedfellows in a Charter Fight
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Birmingham High School, LAUSD’s largest high school campus, was already embroiled in a tricky effort to become a charter school this fall before Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Bruno” character entered the mix. The gay Austrian fashion diva did an unauthorized photo shoot with Birmingham’s football team, sending district officials into a tizzy and jeopardizing the school’s charter approval before the LAUSD Board. What do Bruno and Birmingham have in common besides racy photographs? Apparently, controversy.
Guests:
Tamar Galatzan, board member of the Los Angeles Unified School Board of Education
Chris Monaster, he is an urban studies teacher at Birmingham and lead charter petitioner
- Patt Morrison for Wednesday July 01, 2009
- Bruno & Birmingham High: Odd Bedfellows in a Charter Fight
- May Day Officers: No Firings
- Budget Update
- Frontline on the Battle over Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
- Obama Goes to Russia
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Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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