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California schools now required to create guidelines to handle extreme weather under new law
Yahushua’s Law requires school guidelines for dealing with extreme weather A bill requiring local schools to implement protocols for extreme weather situations has been signed into law. Senate Bill 1248, nicknamed Yahushua’s Law, is in honor of a 12-year-old boy who died during PE at Canyon Lake Middle School during a summer 2023 heatwave. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced…
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Fewer LAUSD students feel safe at school amid rising fights, physical aggression on campus
Newly released data show that fights and other types of physical aggression among L.A. Unified students are rising as the percentage of middle and high school students who said in a survey that they feel safe on campus continues to decline. Read more…
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LAUSD is probing failed AI chatbot, worried about possible misuse of student info
Privacy flaws in $6 million system created by AllHere, who Superintendent Carvalho backed, are target of probe Independent Los Angeles school district investigators have opened an inquiry into claims that the district’s $6 million AI chatbot — an unprecedented learning acceleration tool until the company that built it collapsed and LAUSD pulled the plug —…
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10 LAUSD schools get a chance to opt out of standardized testing, create alternative measurements
Ten Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) community schools will be given an opportunity to pilot new approaches to assessments in the 2025-26 academic year. And once the schools adopt alternative assessments, they won’t have to participate in standardized tests, other than those mandated by state and federal governments, the district school board decided in…





