"… The oil company is currently in dispute with its property tax assessors in Kern County, Calif., where the fields are located.The administrative cost of the sale, …"

"… lt. "We have money, and I'm afraid to spend it," said Conni Brunni, of the Kern County, California, Republican Party. "The rules don't always reconcile with our …"

"… of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.For the boy’s local school board in Kern County, the punishment fits the crime. It upheld a panel’s initial approval of …"

"… sagreements are hardly unusual. In California’s southern Central Valley, Kern County is at the leading edge of a contentious debate over where to draw the line …"

"… adly in deciding how tough to be in their interpretation of behavior codes.Kern County schools exemplify this trend, with expulsions doubling in a decade.A focus …"

"… lify this trend, with expulsions doubling in a decade.A focus on disciplineKern County has a rugged but colorful history. The 2007 movie There Will Be Blood was …"

"… an investigation into extraordinarily high rates of student expulsions in Kern County in the Golden State’s Central Valley. We wanted to compare which of 34 s …"

"… xpulsions, suspensions and other juvenile-justice related info. …"

"… ity recently investigated extremely high expulsion rates in California’s Kern County.     …"

"… here the Center for Public Integrity reported that the Golden State's Kern County goes far behind national and state averages for expelling students fo …"

"… the country, television news outlets have examined how police officers in Kern County, Calif., make rounds to catch truant students.In one KGET report, officers …"

"… enter for Public Integrity took an in-depth look into school expulsions in Kern County because state data shows that schools there expel more kids than anywhere …"

"… ornia school data for the 2010-11 year recently, and found that schools in Kern County — a majority Latino student region — reported an extraordinarily high …"

"… €™s education committee. …"

"… findings of the Center’s investigation last December, which showed that Kern County, an oil and farm region in the Central Valley, is California’s expulsion …"

"… nic breakdowns, and confirm some parents’ concerns.They show that in the Kern County city of Bakersfield, black students at Bakersfield High School were 15 per …"

"… ents each annually.High-level concern The state and federal statistics for Kern County mirror discipline patterns nationwide that worry a growing number of educa …"