The Pacific Tigers wrap the 2011 campaign with a weekend series at UC Santa Barbara. The Tigers will take on the Gauchos Friday at 3 p.m., followed by Saturday and Sunday 1 p.m. starts.
Pacific (16-35) and Santa Barbara (24-25) sit tied for seventh in the Big West at 8-13, just two games back of fourth place entering the final weekend of the season.
The Tigers picked up their first game one win of the season last Friday, as senior RHP Robbie Richardson (Lodi, Calif.) and junior RHP John Prato Matthews combined to hold Cal Poly to one run in a 6-1 Tigers’ victory. Richardson allowed four hits in five innings in his first start since high school to earn the victory, while Prato Matthews tossed four innings of one-hit ball for his first save.
Richardson (2-2, 6.28 ERA) will get the start on Friday, opposite UCSB senior RHP Greg Davis.
CHICAGO – June 13, 2011. Governor Pat Quinn today signed landmark education reforms, which have garnered national attention for provisions that facilitate longer school days and stronger standards for teachers. The landmark reforms, sponsored by Sen. Kimberly Lightford (D-Maywood) and Rep. Linda Chapa La Via (D-Chicago), passed the General Assembly after months of collaboration between Governor’s Office, legislators, education groups and teachers unions.
“Enacting education reform has been one of my top priorities as Governor, and one of my administration’s main objectives for the spring legislative session. These h
After months—years, even—of anticipation, graduation has come and gone. The four days of ceremonies, receptions and endless photo sessions with family members have ended, and I am now an alumnus of Georgetown University. The comfort of college life is over and has been replaced by nostalgia and guarded optimism.
Within hours of my graduation, I was already transitioning into an unknown life of fluidity and homelessness. My on-campus housing ended two weeks before I could move in to my summer sublease. This was problematic. Conveniently, I had two trips planned that would provide some semblance of a home. I still had logistical hurdles to overcome, however. I packed up my belongings into several boxes and distributed them among friends who kindly agreed to hold on to them while I traveled.
My first trip was a quick 36-hour visit to Phoenix for my sister’s high school graduation. I arr
The Washington Post has released a ranking of 1,900 public high schools across the nation, and once again the list of South Bay schools that made the cut raises some questions about the criteria.
Now called the High School Challenge, the ranking was started by WaPo education columnist Jay Mathews in 1998 and long published in Newsweek. This year it includes 11 secondary campuses from the South Bay and Harbor Area. They’re not the ones you might think.
That’s because Mathews’ formula is this “simple” one: the number of AP, IB or other college level tests given by the school in 2010 divided by the number of graduating seniors. T
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