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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After picketing through wind and rain without pay, LAUSD’s service workers have a much easier task this week: voting on whether to ratify their historic new labor contract agreement. The agreement was reached on March 24, following a three-day strike that shut down classes for 420,000 students in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The new contract applies…

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The district’s Acceleration Days, on April 3 and 4, give kids enriched classroom learning The Los Angeles Unified School District’s second round of bonus school days designed to address learning loss among students across all grade levels, are set for April 3 and 4 during spring break. “Acceleration Days” are the brainchild of LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho,…

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This money, from school bonds, aims to make campuses more accessible to students with disabilities, improving water quality and building more outdoor learning spaces. After a turbulent three-day strike that put significant heat on the Los Angeles Unified School District and postponed a School Board meeting, board members were glad to resume meeting this week and vote…

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The three-day strike that shut down public schools in Los Angeles may have been illegal, according to complaints issued by state regulators, clearing the way for the district’s case against the two unions that walked out to move to a formal hearing. The actions by the California Public Employment Relations Board do not represent a…

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For months, the Los Angeles Unified School District had been saying that, despite an ending balance of $4.93 billion for the current school year, the district could be at financial risk in the future. Part of that equation changed Monday, when the district updated that figure to $5.12 billion — while also stating the system’s…

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Los Angeles mayors have no official authority over local schools, but they have a big stake in their success. And the kind of political capital that can make people listen. For that reason, Los Angeles was fortunate that Mayor Karen Bass stepped up last week to mediate a labor impasse between the Los Angeles Unified…

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Los Angeles parents demanded higher quality education for their children in the third year of pandemic learning, with an emphasis on recovering social-emotional and academic learning skills. In a poll conducted in the 2021-22 school year by GPSN and the Loyola Marymount University Center for Equity for English Learners, parents expressed the need to close learning gaps caused by the…

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The Los Angeles Unified School District strike may be a concern of the past, but the question of whether the three-day walkout was illegal remains an issue to be resolved in the future. That question will not be answered by the district or labor leaders, but by an administrative law judge who will rule on the unfair…

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The union representing 30,000 Los Angeles Unified School District service workers has reached an “historic” tentative labor contract with the district just one day after ending a work stoppage that shuttered the nation’s second-largest school system for three days, officials said. The deal effectively meets the union’s demand for a 30% pay raise and also…

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