LAUSD failed disabled students during pandemic, probe finds – Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Unified failed to provide appropriate education to students with disabilities during the pandemic as required under federal law and must provide extra services to help some of the most vulnerable students recover from the significant voids in their learning, the U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday.
The investigation, conducted by the department’s Office for Civil Rights, confirms what many parents have alleged since schools were first closed — that they basically had to fend for themselves during distance learning as their children were left with little if any education and specialized assistance. The district has entered into a voluntary agreement with the federal department to fix its failings.
Source: LAUSD failed disabled students during pandemic, probe finds – Los Angeles Times
Who By Fire: Conocer a La Mujer Secreta / Meet the Secret Lady
Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better
This week, we introduce a character Who Must Not Be Named. She speaks Spanish because she was born in Cuba:
Soy una secreta. Soy una mujer libre. Guardo mis secretos, y tambièn los de un otro.
I am a secret. I am a free woman. I keep my secrets, and also those of another.
- Can you guess whose secret she is keeping?
- -Shira, on behalf of our Secret Lady…
Who by Fire: I Will is Book I of a historical fantasy trilogy.

Action Prompts in support of empathy and hope that you can take right now:
1.) Share two different reasons to write your own novel, or write your Grandmother‘s story, even if it’s not in novel form.
2.) Write a book, story, blog post, or tweet that uses a bit of that work.
Thoughtful Readers, have you any additional ideas…
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Who are We
Have we ever examined who we are? If duplicity, cheating, lying, and stealing sums up who we are and we feel good about ourselves then there is no explanation as to why the world is in the mess it is. We reap what we sow.
© Norma Bobb-Semple 2022
Does Politico Know Who Kamala Harris Is? – Mother Jones
This is Kamala Harris. She is being sworn in as Vice President of the United States of America.Saul Loeb/dpa via Zuma
Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for Covid on Tuesday, and Politico wants to know why she is receiving top-of-the-line health care to treat it. Yesterday’s “West Wing Playbook” newsletter dedicated many paragraphs to pondering medical ethics and why Harris is taking Paxlovid, a highly effective new retroviral medication for Covid-19. But a good answer is only six words long: BECAUSE SHE IS THE VICE PRESIDENT!
Harris is the next in line to run the most powerful country in the world. She is also infected with a virus that can cause short and longterm illness, even in people who are healthy and vaccinated. So why wouldn’t she and her doctors take all possible precautions? Paxlovid is available with a prescription from a doctor for those at high risk of developing a severe case of Covid-19. Is the vice president an obese, diabetic octogenarian? No, but neither is she a 25-year-old athlete. Most importantly, she needs to be able to run the country at a moment’s notice.
Still, Politico wants to know “Why did Kamala take the Pfizer pill?” even though she is, as far as we know, asymptomatic. The newsletter quotes doctors who question the prescription:
“Why,” asked JONATHAN REINER, professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, “would you give Paxlovid to someone without symptoms?”
Um, perhaps because she is the vice president?
Politico also contrasts Harris’ speedy access to Paxlovid with the difficulty many ordinary Americans have had accessing it:
…medical ethicists argued that the moral rationalization for giving Harris the medication only underscores how unfair the system is.
“It’s what I make of the American health care system—better to be rich and connected,” said ARTHUR CAPLAN, a New York University professor of medical ethics.
Harris’ speedy access to Paxlovid sharply contrasts with the rest of the country’s ability to get it. The sheer logistics of finagling a prescription, and then finding the pills within days of symptom onset, has complicated the drug’s rollout after it was first authorized in December.
Yes, some people still have trouble getting Paxlovid. Yes, health care is better for the rich. Does that mean the vice president should not receive high quality medical care? No—because she is the vice president.
The newsletter did also quote Céline Gounder, a doctor who advised President Joe Biden’s transition team on Covid-19. Grounder, a practicing physician and epidemiologist, pointed out that Harris does indeed qualify for Paxlovid and that sometimes world leaders get good medical care for a reason. “It’s about what’s best for the nation,” she said.
That is the correct answer. Why are we even questioning this?
Source: Does Politico Know Who Kamala Harris Is? – Mother Jones
Chart: Where tropical forests disappeared in 2021 – Vox
Account of Sheriff Villanueva lying in a cover-up revealed – Los Angeles Times
The filing by former Assistant Sheriff Robin Limon, once one of Villanueva’s closest advisors, alleges that she personally brought a DVD containing a video of a deputy kneeling on a handcuffed inmate’s neck to Villanueva — and watched it with him and two others five days after the incident happened.
Her account calls into question Villanueva’s claim that he learned of the March 2021 incident eight months after it happened and took swift action.
After The Times last month reported on the cover-up, Limon’s claim said, Villanueva demanded that she retire or she would be demoted four ranks — from assistant sheriff to lieutenant.
“The reasons for the Sheriff’s misconduct were twofold, to retaliate against the Complainant for being a whistleblower on several instances of illegal and other wrongful conduct and to further his cover up of an excessive use of force incident,” her claim said.
Source: Account of Sheriff Villanueva lying in a cover-up revealed – Los Angeles Times
Feds to forgive $238 million in loans for Marinello students – Los Angeles Times
Former students of the shuttered Marinello Schools of Beauty will have their loans forgiven, totaling $238 million for approximately 28,000 students, the federal government announced Thursday.
The news comes six years after Marinello abruptly closed its doors at its beauty schools across the country, including campuses in Los Angeles, Burbank, Moreno Valley and Sacramento. The for-profit college was owned and managed by B&H Education Inc. and headquartered in Beverly Hills.
Source: Feds to forgive $238 million in loans for Marinello students – Los Angeles Times
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