School food has a poor reputation and L.A. Unified richly deserved it for years — combining poor nutrition with sketchy taste. It did not help that, for a time, the district built new schools without working kitchens, relying instead on trucked-in entrees assembled in a central kitchen ...
who werebarred from L.A. campusesfollowing student and community activism after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd in 2020. A much-reduced L.A. school police force currently patrols near schools and enters a campus only to deal with an emergency, conduct...
“It’s not the preferred site for a couple of reasons,” said Kathi Littmann, director of new school planning for the district. “No. 1 is because the cost of the property would be astronomical.” Littmann explained that when the district first publicly announced its interest in the site,...