Toward the end of the first day of wrangling 100 boys in LA Unified’s first all-boys school, Principal Don Moorer sighed, “They certainly have a lot of energy.” He took […]
Toward the end of the first day of wrangling 100 boys in LA Unified’s first all-boys school, Principal Don Moorer sighed, “They certainly have a lot of energy.” He took […]
You snooze, you lose. A California bill that would turn that aphorism on its head — by requiring the state’s middle and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 […]
As America prepares for the moon’s shadow to darken the sun’s path across the United States on Monday, Aug. 21, school districts from Idaho to Colorado to the Southeastern states are buying protective glasses so […]
There was a time when Los Angeles schools were overcrowded to the bursting point and officials seemed utterly incapable of building a single school. The nation’s second-largest school system was forced to operate many […]
Tuesday wasn’t only the beginning of a new academic year in the Los Angeles Unified School District. It also marked the end of an era. In 1997, in the face […]
As we embark on a new school year after a contentious election, we — the Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent, a new L.A. school board member and four principals […]
Tuesday signaled a return to class for LA Unified students — and that means lots of back-to-school photos on social media. There was some news Tuesday afternoon when reports came […]
Charis Holloman walked onto the campus of his new school Tuesday and didn’t even look back to say goodbye to his parents. “He’s excited,” Suzette Holloman said of her son’s […]
Even as enrollment has steadily declined over the last decade in the nation’s second-largest school district, LA Unified is opening four new schools this week, while independent charter schools will […]
Charter schools have experienced a sharp decrease in support in the past year, according to a new poll, one of the largest changes in opinion that Education Next has seen in […]
This week, a significant milestone is being achieved for the students of LAUSD that deserves to be celebrated. The final school — Bell High School— is coming off the year-round calendar, […]
Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of the United Teachers Los Angeles, hasn’t learned anything from the trouncing of union-backed candidates in the Los Angeles Unified school board races this year. Speaking at […]
Early Friday morning, Javier Gutierrez and Judith Leano supervised as 57 boxes of taquitos, frozen hamburgers and other food were unloaded from a refrigerated truck and transferred to the kitchen […]