The deadline is Tuesday to cast a ballot in the special election between Imelda Padilla and Marisa Alcaraz to fill the Sixth District Los Angeles City Council seat vacated when former Council President Nury Martinez resigned. Padilla, a community relations manager, led the seven-candidate field in the first round of voting April 4 with 25.65%…

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LA City Council acts after a mom was killed and daughter critically injured walking to school in Hancock Park Following a fatal traffic collision near an elementary school on April 25, the Los Angeles City Council has put the gas on several measures to improve traffic safety including a much slower 15 miles per hour speed limit near 45…

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Several factors suggest the district has its work cut out for it in replacing Primary Promise A popular literacy program that LAUSD superintendent Alberto Carvalho proposed significantly altering will get a one-year reprieve, with specialist positions off the budgetary chopping block. Part of the recently approved $18.8 billion budget, the move responds to teachers and parents…

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The Los Angeles Unified School District recently adopted a $18.8 billion budget bursting with good news, including big pay bumps for staff, smaller class sizes for students, $124 million for Black student success programs and more mental health workers. But underneath these positive investments looms a threatening fiscal reality. In September 2024, pandemic-era federal funding allocated to the district–which totaled $5.6 billion and…

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The U.S. Departments of Justice and Education are putting public schools on notice that immigrant children and youth are entitled to a free public education, regardless of their immigration status. The two agencies published fact sheets earlier this month reminding families and educators of the rights immigrant students—specifically migratory children and unaccompanied minors—have when it comes to receiving…

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Using up the last of its major pandemic aid, the Los Angeles Unified approved its $18.8 billion budget for the 2023-2024 academic year at its meeting Tuesday in keeping with its “strategic plan” to promote college and career readiness post-graduation. As part of the budget, the district allocated more than $4 billion to decreasing class…

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In 2004, Jackie Goldberg, then a California assemblywoman, married her partner at San Francisco City Hall in one of the first same-sex weddings in the country, their nuptials celebrated with cheers from family, friends and political allies. Legally unable to marry up to that point, the couple had already been together for 28 years and had raised…

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The outdoor walkways of the Roybal Learning Center offer a panoramic view of the Los Angeles skyline that would be a fitting backdrop for any Hollywood movie. That’s what grabbed Jaison Noralez when he visited the downtown high school last year. Now a freshman at Roybal’s celebrity-backed Film and Television Production Magnet program, he’s training…

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The Los Angeles Unified School District board of education voted to promote school safety measures including safe passage at its board meeting Tuesday – while members of the Police Free LAUSD coalition rallied outside in support of the measure and against policing. Currently, the district has 27 safe passage programs that provide routes for students…

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The Los Angeles Unified school board passed a resolution Tuesday that backs migrant asylum seekers and condemns the Biden administration’s immigration policies. Immigrants make up about a third of Los Angeles’ population, and the district welcomed about 13,000 new students from international backgrounds in the 2021-2022 academic year. “The Governing Board of the Los Angeles…

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Carvalho says the successful reading program is costly and doesn’t reach enough students LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is doubling down on his decision to replace a much-loved early reading intervention program known as Primary Promise with a new model to support students struggling with reading and math. His decision is backed by the district’s elected school board,…

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The LAUSD Board of Education passed a resolution on Tuesday, June 6, urging schools to incorporate more lessons on the LGBTQ community after someone burned a transgender teacher’s Pride flag at Saticoy Elementary School and parents protested against the school’s assembly at which a book reading explained same-sex parents. The board resolution passed unanimously and called for a renewed focus…

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