Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Alberto Carvalho defended changes to the Primary Promise intervention program, expanding its focus beyond helping struggling K-2 readers to reaching older students and training more teachers. Carvalho detailed the plan at a Tuesday board meeting after facing criticism for dismantling the flagship initiative of his predecessor, Austin Beutner, earlier…

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L.A. Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho wants to dramatically increase the number of high schools offering prestigious online college courses for the fall to boost enrollment and increase pathways to college — but so far the goal is elusive. In an interview with LA School Report in early May, Carvalho said he was confident 30 schools…

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A sweeping agreement announced Friday between unions and Los Angeles school officials will result in a longer school year, a return to a three-week winter break and a reboot of controversial acceleration days. The deal also includes the resolution of legal issues, including some that could have proved to be important test cases for future labor negotiations.…

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Amid pushback, board sets public presentation for June 6 Alberto Carvalho came to Los Angeles Unified last year having delivered impressive academic results at the helm of Miami-Dade, another large urban district grappling with myriad challenges. Among the hallmarks of his 14-year tenure in Florida are a centralized approach to education, a passion for data and…

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LAUSD used $280M in fed funding for home devices and internet, but that stream is at risk of drying up At 1 p.m. on Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Tony Cárdenas boarded a flight to Washington D.C. to cast a critical vote on the debt ceiling, but first he had an important stop to make at Cárdenas Elementary School in Van…

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District to offer ‘transitional kindergarten’ to all four-year-olds in fall, but parents may need nudge The Los Angeles Unified School District is pushing the gas pedal on its expansion of transitional kindergarten, and will offer the program to all four-year-olds this fall, two years ahead of the state’s mandate that school districts must do so. The expansion…

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A Los Angeles public school program that officials portrayed as a major success for helping struggling young students improve academically is being substantially dismantled by Supt. Alberto Carvalho, who says it’s too costly and not particularly effective. The abrupt and unannounced change of direction to Primary Promise, which was launched in 2020, has angered many…

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For the past several years, John Jackson, a student in the Los Angeles Unified School District, has shared a single bedroom with his mother and three siblings in an apartment. He had to learn to juggle the demands of caring for a younger sibling and the neighbor’s kids while also being captain of the school’s…

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If Congress doesn’t raise the federal government’s debt ceiling, America will default on its debt obligations in a matter of weeks, potentially triggering a worldwide economic crisis that would almost immediately pose major and lasting trouble for K-12 schools. Education advocates on Capitol Hill are fretting over the consequences of a default that could happen…

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An L.A. schools program that officials portrayed as a success for helping struggling students improve academically is being substantially dismantled.  A Los Angeles public school program that officials portrayed as a major success for helping struggling young students improve academically is being substantially dismantled by Supt. Alberto Carvalho, who says it’s too costly and not…

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About 55% of LAUSD students who experience homelessness are chronically absent from class After losing her apartment Nicolette Palombo was stuck in an impossible predicament: she couldn’t get her kids to school because they were without reliable shelter and constantly moving, she couldn’t get housing because she needed a job — and she couldn’t get…

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The proposal seemed simple: Change the length of winter vacation in Los Angeles public schools from three weeks to two. Students would have the same number of school days without losing so much learning momentum. But the school board’s recent decision to alter winter break and all it affects — the rhythm of lives and…

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