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Who's Your Favorite 2012 Olympic Athlete?

With the 2012 Olympics in full swing in London, a number of athletes are blowing up the charts on search engines and social media.

From the Michael Phelps-Ryan Lochte rivalry to some buzzworthy tweets from Lolo Jones and Hope Solo, a slew of Olympic athletes are trending on Google and social media sites. 

Which athlete has caught your eye so far? Do you stick with rooting for a local such as Kerri Walsh Jennings? Here's a list of some of the most buzzworthy Olympic athletes so far from Google Trends. Let us know in the Comments section below who is your favorite athlete in London and why.

 

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Michael Uhler May 25, 2013 at 10:48 am
These are the special education numbers for LASD and BCS for the 2011-2012 school year, the mostRead More recent year that has complete data: LASD had 462 special education students in a total enrollment of 4,486, or 10.3%. Total education expense was $7,319,175, or $15,842 per special education student. Of this expense, they received $3,549,684 from the SELPA, so their expense was about twice the amount they received. BCS had 29 special education students in a total enrollment of 465, or 6.2%. Total education expense was $221,149, or $7,626 per special education student. Of this expense, they were allocated $295,126 from the SELPA, so their expense was completely paid for by the amount they received (they did not keep the excess - it was returned to the SELPA). Sources: CDE DataQuest, SCCOE, LASD
Joan J. Strong May 22, 2013 at 11:21 am
Corrections: 1. Straw man attack: nobody is blaming BCS for district-wide growth. Nobody. 2. BCSRead More does not get "half the funding" of LASD. BCS gets about 6500 and LASD gets about 9500. The BCS program for typical children costs about twice as much as the comparable LASD program. BCS is simple an expensive hybrid public/private school, nothing more. 3. Mr. Roode pointed out that there are about 100 or so special ed. students at LASD (I cannot verify this but it seems very low). LASD calls out an annual expense of $7.5 million for special ed. meaning each of these students cost LASD $75,000, not $1,000 as he implied. 4. The law and the courts have ALREADY compelled LASD to give reasonably equivalent facilities and they have. BCS has a lower student/teacher ratio meaning that they have more classrooms for the same number of kids. This is not, legally speaking, LASD's problem. 5. Mr. Roode has yet to explain how the Covington campus could be 16 acres. Further, he continues to spread the fallacy that campuses ACREAGE is even remotely relevant to its student capacity. Campuses are limited by their location and traffic, not how many acres of grass there is in the back. 6. Were it not for BCS, we would have passed a bond in the last election, as the polling shows. BCS litigation has ripped our community apart and has left it with a mountain to climb when it comes to operating in a normal fashion.
L.A. Chung (Editor) May 22, 2013 at 10:37 am
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David R. May 21, 2013 at 10:26 pm
What kind of bins are there? Do you take used CDROMs? How about VHS tapes? Cables and wire?
David R. May 20, 2013 at 01:18 pm
I saw a public report that said most of the discussion related to carpooling and so forth, sinceRead More Blach is separated so much from the rest of the school. You know, things like dropping off both kids at Egan, and then a group of kids headed for Blach share a ride or vice versa. I don't see how any nonparents can really help with that.