Los Angeles school district puts superintendent on paid leave

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LOS ANGELES, CA – Alberto Carvalho, the Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent, was placed on paid administrative leave by the Board of Education late Friday afternoon pending an FBI investigation. Carvalho’s home in the coastal San

Urban tree funding axed in WA House budget proposal

A tree-lined street in Tumwater. The City of Tumwater is part of a group of more than a dozen communities to get money from the federal government to boost their urban tree canopy. (Laurel Demkovich/Washington State Standard)

WASHSINGTON – Funding that helps Washington communities plant and sustain trees is on the chopping block in the state Legislature. House budget legislation would cut funding for the Department of Natural Resources’ Urban and Community Forestry program,