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Before San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Hardy Williams, a physical education teacher from LAHS also protested the anthem. http://www.latimes.com//la-sp-national-anthem-protest-2016

http://www.npr.org//463635963/a-history-of-the-sat-in-four

New Horizons scientists made this false color image of Pluto. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/psychedelic-pluto

"To infinity and beyond" http://www.nasa.gov//nasa-releases-plan-outlining-next-ste

Water on Saturn's Moon Enceladus. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4718

Sex education varies widely between school districts, leaving many teens without comprehensive information. We made a video that covers what some schools are too embarrassed to teach.

Washington DC experiences taxation without representation. It's also missing from rhyming state songs. John Oliver and a group of singing children fix one of these problems.

"Treating women as second-class citizens is a bad tradition. It holds you back. There’s no excuse for sexual assault or domestic violence. There’s no reason tha...t young girls should suffer genital mutilation. There’s no place in civilized society for the early or forced marriage of children. These traditions may date back centuries; they have no place in the 21st century." President Obama in Kenya: http://go.wh.gov/Ko3xvP See more

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has made the first visit to Pluto, speeding past at 14km per second. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33524589

Happy Birthday Magna Carta, 800 years ago you helped establish democracy, the idea that not even a king is above the law was very new at the time. "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice." - Magna Carta signed June 15, 1215

American students face an enormous amount of testing. John Oliver explains how standardized tests impact school funding, the achievement gap, how often kids are expected to throw up.

Girls Academic Leadership academy (GALA) is an all-girls secondary school in LAHS, the curriculum focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) http://www.nbclosangeles.com//LAUSD-Approves-New-Public-Sc

A modern facelift to the Los Angeles High School website: http://www.lahigh.org