During one school day this week, Los Angeles Unified grappled with three emergencies: a double stabbing outside a high school, multiple suspected fentanyl overdoses at a middle school and a traffic collision outside an elementary school that badly injured a child. The Monday violence and trauma was so alarming that it prompted a Tuesday morning phone call…

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The Los Angeles Unified School District is making a $75 million investment in electric school buses and chargers, the largest such purchase of any school district in the nation, in an effort to cut its carbon footprint and provide a more sustainable transportation system for its students. The district plans on completely transitioning the Sun Valley Bus Yard to…

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The Los Angeles Unified School District announced a commitment Tuesday to purchase 180 electric school buses, along with chargers and other infrastructure, as part of a plan to fully electrify its Sun Valley Bus Yard by 2026. The Sun Valley yard provides transportation for 4,600 students each day in the northern portion of the nation’s…

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Zach Didier, a senior at Whitney High School in Rocklin, was a straight-A student, athlete, star of his school musical and Eagle Scout. Two nights after Christmas 2020, he took what he thought was a Percoset that he bought through Snapchat, an out-of-character move for a student with no history of drug use. The pill…

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Students who live in family shelters get a private area to play, decompress, do homework Having been a homeless student himself, LAUSD superintendent Alberto Carvalho is intimately familiar with the challenges faced by unhoused students. And on Friday, April 28, he unveiled an initiative to support their needs: private study and relaxation spaces being offered…

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After fatal accident outside an elementary school, LAUSD and city officials have sense of urgency A fatal traffic incident at an elementary school on Tuesday, April 25, prompted members of the Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee to tackle the problem of street safety with a renewed sense of urgency this week. Click here to read more:…

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Misha Karigaca was a middle school principal when the Oakland Unified School District revamped its disciplinary policies in 2015 to end willful defiance suspensions. Instead of sending a student out of class for a minor infraction, teachers were encouraged to de-escalate by talking to the child quietly or writing them a note in class. “We’re not…

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New USDA guidelines would cut sugar and sodium in cafeteria food to help curb childhood obesity. A CHEESEBURGER with oranges, fries and chocolate milk is offered as a school lunch. Less sugar , lower sodium and more whole grains are among the new guidelines for school meals under consideration by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.…

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Despite failing every class — or because of it — Rebbeca Avelino, a 14-year-old eighth grader, wanted time off from school during spring break. But history teacher Lorraine Escalante pressed her to attend two “acceleration days” in the Los Angeles Unified School District. “She knew that I was doing bad,” Rebbeca said. “And she wanted…

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LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho says attendance at district schools has improved this school year – but one local board district has had a dramatically higher rate of chronically absent students.    In the 2021-2022 school year, 55.4% of students in Board District 2 (BD2) were chronically absent, according to the LAUSD Open Data portal. It was the highest among LAUSD’s seven…

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Growing up, Lindsey Weatherspoon was used to attending largely Black elementary and middle schools. But at Venice High School, where she is now a junior, the student body is just 13% Black. Though it’s a significant Black population for a high school in Los Angeles Unified, she’s still one of the few Black students in many of…

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0:18 a.m. It may be spring break, but on Monday and Tuesday school was in session for approximately 33,000 students who opted to attend the second offering of Los Angeles Unified School District’s “acceleration days.” These bonus school days were originally envisioned by LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho as a means to uplift students who fell behind during…

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