The district’s program could very well serve as a blueprint for other districts across the country as they work to improve Black student success. Any time students who are underperforming improve, the entire school benefits. LAUSD should fight with every resource in its toolbox to keep its Bl...
While the source of the messages remains unclear, reports began surfacing on Wednesday afternoon. LAUSD was one of many school districts across the nation where students began to receive similar messages, which make references to slavery and picking cotton. As of Sunday,students in at least 32 st...
The legal action against LAUSD is part of a broader playbook of the political right, which has fueled culture-war divides at school districts across the country. Supporters of the Black Student Achievement Plan are outraged and want the program preserved in its original form. Under pre...
He hailed those achievements late last month in his annual back-to-school address, delivered at the Walt Disney Concert Hall downtown, noting that while "other school districts have been forced to lay off employees due to the challenging economic conditions, we have not and we shall not." Th...
Actors Cheech Marin and Monica Rosenthal appeared at the meeting to ask the board to support the arts initiative. Board member Nury Martinez says the district's arts curriculum falls significantly behind programs in other large, urban districts. ...
You can bet that workers in surrounding school districts, as well as other large urban districts throughout the country, will want more from their employers now, said Thomas Lenz, an adjunct professor at the USC Gould School of Law and a labor law attorney. ...
District 3 school board candidate Dan Chang is among those who have criticized the bond, saying the district should assess its enrollment and facility needs across the school system before going to the voters for more money. The district should not pour dollars into campuses that...
U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said a preliminary investigation indicates that the threats in Los Angeles and New York City were designed to disrupt school districts in large cities. Parents pick up their children from school early, on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, in Los Angeles. The natio...
District officials had touted the advantage of having three more weeks to prepare for the state’s high-stakes standardized tests in May. Those results are used to judge the overall success and improvement of schools and school districts — and soon may be used to evaluate individual teachers as...
… WHILE 23 TEXAS DISTRICTS RATE THEIR RATING SYSTEM (IT FLUNKS): Meanwhile, two dozen districts in Texas are developing new school ratings systems that don’t rely on high-stakes standardized tests. The Texas High Performance Schools Cons...