Even though Locke High is now a charter school with higher academic standards, students are still as likely to drop out as graduate. The odds were against the three students we followed on Inside Locke High and Return to Locke High - Joanna Alatorre, Damon Horton and Bryan Ordaz - did they make it?
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KPCC's John Rabe, from the award-winning radio show Off-Ramp, stopped by the Locke High graduation to interview producer Angela Shelley and all three Locke High students.
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All three students profiled in our award winning shows, "Inside Locke High" and "Return to Locke High," attended Prom Night together.
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Will sin be the next victim of the new economy? We take the well-known route from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to find out.
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What's a "move-away"? Attorney Rozanna Velen, who specializes in Family Law, explains.
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Increasingly, people are filing for what’s called “support modification” - which is when parents say they’re facing financial hardship and can’t afford to pay child support.
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We still have the right to sit back and enjoy a few days of summer…and to show them that they haven’t taken everything.
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SoCal Connected takes five trophies at the Los Angeles Press Club's 51st Annual Southern California Journalism Awards.
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Following our story, "Return To Locke High" one of the students we profiled, Bryan Ordaz, was invited to Burroughs High School Spring Band Concert as a guest musician.
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Photographer Gary Leonard is curating an exhbit of photographs depicting billboards from the '50s and '60s.
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Is the economy the new villain in the battle over child support? Plus, Blueprint America: Green Collar Jobs.
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Learn more about Syd Mandelbaum and Rock and Wrap It Up.
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Debbie Tenzer has some ideas about what you can do to give back once a day or once a week in easy, inexpensive and badly needed ways.
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SoCal Connected cameras were there as a crowd of about 1,000 people gathered in Santa Monica to show support for the two American journalists imprisoned by North Korea.
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What was your reaction to Gov. Schwarzenegger's speech on the state of California's budget crisis?
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For our story on food waste, I went to the L.A. Regional Food Bank and talked with Michael Flood.
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We talk with Bob Stern about what he sees are the greatest dangers facing California, and what the state must do to get out of this economic mess.
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I care about the environment as much as anyone. If the environment weren't looking where it was going and was about to get hit by a car, I'd yell, "Hey, environment, watch out!"
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At a time of tremendous need why is there also tremendous waste? Meet the people who have found ways to waste less food and feed more people.
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They're called the Ocean Defenders: a group of volunteer SCUBA divers who head deep underwater to clean up shipwrecks and protect ocean life.
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