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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As an investigation continued into the stabbing of two teenage boys near Los Angeles High School, Mayor Karen Bass said Wednesday she plans to work with the district and convene meetings to bolster safety around school campuses. “In the past two weeks, we’ve seen near-death overdoses at an LAUSD middle school, the death of a…

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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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