The Los Angeles Unified School District board narrowly adopted a policy to limit which of the school district’s campuses can be shared for use by charter schools — an arrangement called “co-locating” — on Tuesday, March 19. The controversial decision to prevent charter schools from using roughly 200 district buildings was first approved by the…

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The Los Angeles Times has covered the Oscars for 95 years — and now it has won one. The heartwarming “The Last Repair Shop,” directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers and co-distributed by L.A. Times Studios and Searchlight, took home the prize in the documentary short category at the Oscars on Sunday. Read more… LAUSD Arts…

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Shortly after Alberto Carvalho became superintendent of LAUSD two years ago, he created a 100-day plan and named the district’s top 100 priority schools.  At the time, neither Carvalho nor district staff publicly identified the schools. However, LAUSD has continuously maintained that the schools are some of the district’s lowest-performing campuses in all measures, and that they…

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In the deep northwest reach of Los Angeles Unified, tucked among foothills carpeted with newish subdivisions, Porter Ranch Community School has a rare problem. At a time of declining public school enrollment in L.A. and throughout the state, this campus is overcrowded — the only one in the nation’s second-largest school district that is full…

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As students return to school after holiday travel and festivities, respiratory illnesses are at high levels in Los Angeles, with many suffering from a mix of Covid and the flu.  During the week leading up to Dec. 28 and with Covid-19 strain JN. 1 having become dominant, the LA County Department of Public Health reported an average of…

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Varying — and in some cases lacking — definitions and data make the issue hard to track, as experts continue to pursue solutions for both prevention and recovery. Published Dec. 20, 2023 School shootings reached yet another unprecedented high in 2023, outpacing the previous year’s record for the third year in a row. With a…

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District may also consider closing or consolidating schools as enrollment keeps declining, superintendent says  Los Angeles Unified has enacted a targeted hiring freeze and may consider closing or consolidating schools as it faces the loss of federal pandemic aid and declining enrollment, superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in an interview last week. Carvalho, who nearly two years ago assumed leadership of…

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Is teaching 7th grade harder than teaching 3rd grade? Is a transfer from a high school principal’s position to the central office a “materially adverse” change? What about a school security guard’s move from a high school to a middle school? Those are some of the questions lower courts have faced in the context of…

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For her 17th birthday, Jeramie Naya Vives Osorio’s family showered her with gifts: a dozen pink roses, a stack of Beard Papa‘s cream puffs, a Strawberry Sweet cake from the Korean bakery Tous les Jours and a small silver necklace from Tiffany.  Michelle Vives knew her middle daughter — Jer to her friends, Mia to…

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School shootings — on the overall rise for decades — have broken last year’s record high at 306 shootings with just under two months left to go in the year. Published Nov. 10, 2023 K-12 Dive The number of U.S. school shootings in 2023 surpassed last year’s record-breaking number of 305 school shootings on Thursday, according to a count…

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Los Angeles Unified School District will pay $19.9 million to settle sexual abuse claims against a former teacher’s assistant at a North Hollywood elementary school, including an allegation that he made one young girl repeatedly position herself in a “puppy pose” while he rubbed his hands against her.  The latest settlement adds to a long…

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Attorneys have finalized a settlement involving litigation brought against the Los Angeles Unified School District that, if approved by a judge, will pay millions of dollars to multiple girls who allege they were molested by a former teacher’s assistant at a North Hollywood elementary school. The plaintiffs are identified as Jane Does in the Los…

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