Budget cuts, staffing reductions and school consolidations are coming to Los Angeles Unified as the cash-strapped district ...
The Los Angeles Unified School District has seen some impressive academic results over the last few years. But in pursuing ...
Last month, the U.S. Department of Education announced that K-12 schools will receive $122 billion under the American Rescue Plan’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. State and ...
Education policy and Hollywood rarely intersect.  But when filmmaker Rob Reiner latched onto the science about how young ...
Your donation will help us produce journalism like this. Please give today. George McKenna doesn’t talk about it much, but Denzel Washington played him in a TV movie called “The George McKenna Story.” ...
Your donation will help us produce journalism like this. Please give today. Jennifer Kottke has worked with LAUSD homeless and foster care youth for more than 20 years — but she has never seen chronic ...
The Rust Belt city of Rochester in upstate New York has the most economically segregating school district border in the country, walling off the high-poverty education system from its affluent ...
Old accusations of sexual misconduct by LA Unified Superintendent Ramon Cortines resurfaced today in a new lawsuit that includes explosive new assertions sure to cause anger, embarrassment and ...
The defense in Vergara v California began its case today, calling to the witness stand a veteran educator whose testimony about identifying and dealing with ineffective teachers came in stark contrast ...
A tiny, rural school district in northern Los Angeles County is under growing scrutiny over its approval of more than 20 new charter schools in the last few years, the majority of them serving ...
Your donation will help us produce journalism like this. Please give today. LA Unified has so many different kinds of schools, it’s hard to keep them all straight. With such varied terms as affiliated ...
It was in physical education class when Laila Gutierrez swapped out self-harm for a new vice. The freshman from Phoenix had long struggled with depression and would cut her arms to feel something.