Housing project opens near school
HOLLYWOOD — Mayor Eric Garcetti, City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, state and local leaders were joined by affordable housing developer Abode Communities, property owner the Los Angeles Unified School...
View ArticleStudents continue protests over presidential election
LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of students from East Los Angeles-area high schools walked out of class Nov. 14 and took part in a peaceful march in protest of Donald Trump’s election as president. The walkout...
View ArticleYouth Policy Institute receives $6 million federal Promise Neighborhood grant
LOS ANGELES — The Youth Policy Institute in Los Angeles, which has been working to battle childhood poverty for more than 30 years, has been named one of six winners of the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleGroups publish toolkit to guide parents through LAUSD
LOS ANGELES — A network of more than 60 nonprofit organizations gathered Jan. 19 at the United Way of Greater Los Angeles for the launch of a Parent Engagement Toolkit aimed at helping parents navigate...
View ArticleLocal schools receive federal Promise Zone grant
LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti has announced that eight Los Angeles schools — seven in Pico-Union and one in Hollywood — will share a $30 million federal grant for educational and community-based...
View ArticleLAUSD board becoming more charter friendly
LOS ANGELES — Two new members of the Los Angeles school board who were heavily backed by charter-school proponents were sworn in July 6, potentially signaling a major policy shift in the nation’s...
View ArticleRodriguez elected LAUSD school board president
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted 4-3 to select Ref Rodriguez as board president for the 2017-18 school year. The four deciding votes were cast by newly...
View ArticleNew LAUSD board adopts children-first policy
LOS ANGELES — A new majority on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s school board wasted little time July 6 in setting a tone for the new school year. Acting on a motion by new board President Ref...
View ArticleSuperintendent launches 2017-18 school year
EAST LOS ANGELES — Superintendent Michelle King kicked off the 2017-18 school year Aug. 8 with her annual State of the District address, outlining a host of record-breaking accomplishments and new...
View ArticleLAUSD begins new school year
LOS ANGELES — Superintendent Michelle King, school board members and other Los Angeles Unified School District officials kicked off the new academic year Aug. 15 with visits to select schools,...
View ArticleReport: most LAUSD grads don’t complete college
LOS ANGELES — In what’s being billed as the first extensive effort to track the college success of Los Angeles Unified School District graduates, a study released last week found that about 70 percent...
View ArticleLAUSD grad is one of three Nobel Prize winners in physics
LOS ANGELES — A 1954 graduate of John Marshall High School was named Oct. 3 as one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of gravitational waves, a development that confirmed...
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Fighting cancer, LAUSD superintendent to retire
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District will launch a search for a new district executive after receiving news last week that Superintendent Michelle King, who has been on medical leave...
View ArticleLAUSD service workers agree to three-year contract
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District reached a tentative agreement May 8 with the union representing its service workers on a three-year contract, averting a planned one-day strike...
View ArticleLAUSD superintendent pick called ‘unconventional’
LOS ANGELES — Investment banker and former Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner toured Belmont High School May 2 during his first day as superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, but he...
View ArticleBeutner sets tone for new LAUSD school year
LOS ANGELES — More than half a million Los Angeles Unified School District students headed back to school Aug. 14 as classes resumed at the nation’s second-largest school district. The school year...
View ArticleSuperintendent seeks more resources, increased learning
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner has announced an effort to provide more resources to schools and improve student learning. The initiative aims to develop...
View ArticleLAUSD teachers overwhelmingly vote for strike
Independent Wire Services LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Unified School District teachers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if labor negotiations continue to stall, union officials announced Aug....
View ArticleLAUSD officials mark Attendance Matters Day
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District marked Attendance Matters Day Sept. 7, when the district tries to find students who have stopped attending classes and get them to return to...
View ArticleLAUSD, teachers’ union attend mediation session
LOS ANGELES — Labor negotiators for the Los Angeles Unified School District and the union representing 33,000 teachers began meeting with a state mediator Sept. 27 in hopes of brokering a resolution to...
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