Alvia Urdaneta  

If your house is on fire and you have time to save only one thing, what would it be?

The family Bible? A photo album? An autographed baseball?

Pedro Rivera, superintendent of schools for 11,000 Lancaster children, has chosen to save full-day kindergarten.

The raging fire he's facing is an u...

It's a memory that many daughters and fathers share. The memory usually entails a young daughter balanced with her toes on her father's slick dress shoes while they spin around a dance floor at a wedding, in a family living room or at a park while listening to music.

"It is a memory that can help...

A proposal to expand block scheduling at McCaskey High School apparently caught parents, students and some teachers by surprise last week.
And on Tuesday, they let school board members know it wasn't a pleasant surprise.
Three students, four McCaskey parents and one teacher urged the board to ...

Three weeks ago, Alvia Urdaneta was sitting in traffic, waiting to leave McCaskey High School, when another car sideswiped the vehicle she was riding in.
A week earlier, two of the McCaskey junior's friends were knocked off their bicycles after cars struck them in front of the school.
And just...