The contract still needs to be approved by the LAUSD Board of Education. LOS ANGELES - Thousands of Los Angeles Unified School District service workers overwhelmingly approved what has been described as a "historic" labor agreement, with over 99% of members voting in favor of the deal, union ...
The L.A. Unified program, approved and funded by the Board of Education in 2021, added school staff including a psychiatric social worker, an attendance counselor, a parent or community representative and an academic counselor specifically to help Black students, who make up 7% of the...
Tyrone C. Howard is a professor in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Pedro Noguera is dean of theUSC Rossier School of Education.
Deasy proposes handing out the next batch by April to three dozen of the district's campuses most lacking in technology. Other schools would get them between August 2014 and December 2015. The Board of Education is expected to consider the revised proposal at a special meeting on Oct. 29. D...
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the deal with United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). He said it requires the approval of the teachers and the Board of Education. UTLA memberswalked off the job Jan. 14 for the first timein 30 years. In addition to higher pay and improved benefits, ...
In the coming weeks, members of SEIU Local 99 — the service workers union representing 30,000 bus drivers, custodians, instructional aides, cafeteria workers and special education assistants — must ratify what is still a tentative agreement. And the district must implement its new contract ...
The union, however, continued to dig in Monday, vowing to stick to its plans for a three-day walkout of roughly 30,000 service workers, including cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians, special education assistants and other workers. The district's powerful teachers union, United ...
AdvertisementLos Angeles School Superintendent Austin Beutner, right, with School Board President Monica Garcia, met with Geri Guzman, left, and family members of students before holding a press conference at LAUSD Headquarters. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) ...
Another strategy offers students and families support through wellness clinics such as the one that just opened adjacent to Jordan High in Watts. It will serve students as well as an estimated 1,000 nearby community members who can walk in or make appointments. ...
“I think it was good to push the pause button and allow some time for our members to be educated on what the standards are, how they got here, what they’re about with regards to their goals and also whether or not they’re g...