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Redondo Posts Test Score Gains
Students increase scores in English-language arts, mathematics, science and history on the 2011 STAR tests.

With the exception of four years of college in Virginia and a two-year stint at a television station in Arizona, Nicole Mooradian has lived in the South Bay all her life.
She graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., with a degree in journalism and sociology. While in school, she interned for The Press-Telegram in Long Beach, Calif., and WCAU-TV in Philadelphia. Since then, she's worked as an online news editor at KPHO-TV in Phoenix, where she received two Emmy Awards as part of an investigative team, and as a researcher for The Los Angeles Times.
Nicole is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Online News Association.
Students increase scores in English-language arts, mathematics, science and history on the 2011 STAR tests.

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South Bay Credit Union is hosting a community shred day where consumers can destroy sensitive paperwork.
Redondo Beach Unified School District's overall graduation rate is 91.8 percent, according to newly released data.
The Southern California Gas Company is reminding customers to call 811 before starting a project that requires digging.
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Councilman Bill Brand argues that building a new power plant would negatively affect Redondo Beach.
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