A healthy, collaborative school culture is a springboard that propels students to academic excellence—and teachers to professional growth, said Andrew Farley, principal of Brookfield East High School, in Brookfield, Wisc. The National Association of Secondary School Principals named Farley its 2024 Principal of the Year on Oct. 20, citing his efforts to close the achievement…

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Los Angeles Times, September 27, 2023 When Tropical Storm Hilary drenched the interior of a building rented by a charter school at Eastman Elementary — destroying books and computers — some 75 charter students moved into the auditorium and library of the main campus, straining resources and patience.  “It’s just very unfair that the whole school basically…

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Administrators took in more than $750,000 combined in extra pay over three years. By Howard Blume A small group of Los Angeles Unified School District employees collected more than $750,000 combined in extra pay over three years, much of it improperly approved, prompting investigations and leading to the demotions, reassignments or departuresof at least 10 employees,…

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Jackie Goldberg, the president of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s school board, announced earlier this month that she will retire in December 2024 after completing her current term.  Goldberg has worked in public service for more than four decades, starting as a teacher in the 1960s, and won her first LAUSD school board election…

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The August 22nd LAUSD Board of Education meeting opened with a march and protest that turned into an unlawful assembly, with several protestors detained. Parents from as far as San Diego joined Saticoy Elementary parents to protest the Board’s support for LGBTQIA+ students. A smaller group of counter protestors in support of LGBTQIA+ students quickly…

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As a nation, we are confronting an alarming crisis in K-12 education that goes beyond the effects of a global pandemic. Before the pandemic, roughly 1 in 10 students in Los Angeles County and across our state were chronically absent. Now, in many schools, almost half of our students are missing from our classrooms on…

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Sebastian Mariscal strutted smiling onto the school bus that would take the 5-year-old from South L.A. to Brentwood for his first day of school. Then a moment later, he ran out crying into his father’s arms as the reality of the separation took hold. So began one family’s experience as a new school year opened…

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In a reversal from recent pandemic-era school years, Los Angeles schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho is urging students to come to school sick — at least if they are just a little sick — to combat high rates of absences that officials fault for harming mental health and holding back learning. If a student has a…

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The Los Angeles Unified School District is gearing up for the 2023-24 academic year and plans to transform its strategy from building structures and coherence to accelerating student success by expanding basic services including housing, health care, meals and transportation. District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho addressed district supporters at a packed Walt Disney Concert Hall in…

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