About 130 graduating high school seniors from the Los Angeles Unified School District who have been homeless or faced housing insecurity were recognized during a special ceremony on Monday, May 20. The 11th annual recognition ceremony, which featured two student speakers and included a special lunch for the soon-to-be graduates afterward, took place at BMO Stadium in Exposition…

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A plan to return police to 20 troubled Los Angeles campuses amid an alarming crime spike — an action approved by schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho — began to collapse after one day amid opposition and confusion. The deployment of officers would have marked the largest shift to date since a Los Angeles school board decision…

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Amid steeply escalating school crime, drug use and fighting, individual Los Angeles public school campuses should be allowed to decide whether to station a police officer on campus, a safety task force said, a recommendation that, if adopted, would reverse wins by anti-police student activists but respond to calls by many parents to restore officers.…

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State courts will settle school divides over notifications, book curbs, public records. Supporters of a proposed November ballot initiative wanted the all-important title of their measure to reflect their beliefs, a name like “Protect Kids of California Act.” But Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta saw things differently when his office chose the name signature gatherers must…

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High school junior Maya Shtangrud may have given up on her childhood dream of learning to play the violin — but now, serving as an arts justice fellow at the ACLU of Southern California, she remains steadfast in her advocacy for arts education.  Like many, she hoped Proposition 28 — a ballot measure passed by roughly 65%…

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A new housing complex opened its doors to formerly homeless families with children following the grand opening ceremony in Sun Valley on Monday, March 25. Sun King Apartments features 12 one-bedroom units, 11 two-bedroom apartments and three three-bedroom units, and has become a home to 25 families with students who attend the Los Angeles Unified…

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The Los Angeles Unified School District board narrowly adopted a policy to limit which of the school district’s campuses can be shared for use by charter schools — an arrangement called “co-locating” — on Tuesday, March 19. The controversial decision to prevent charter schools from using roughly 200 district buildings was first approved by the…

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The Los Angeles Times has covered the Oscars for 95 years — and now it has won one. The heartwarming “The Last Repair Shop,” directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers and co-distributed by L.A. Times Studios and Searchlight, took home the prize in the documentary short category at the Oscars on Sunday. Read more… LAUSD Arts…

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Shortly after Alberto Carvalho became superintendent of LAUSD two years ago, he created a 100-day plan and named the district’s top 100 priority schools.  At the time, neither Carvalho nor district staff publicly identified the schools. However, LAUSD has continuously maintained that the schools are some of the district’s lowest-performing campuses in all measures, and that they…

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In the deep northwest reach of Los Angeles Unified, tucked among foothills carpeted with newish subdivisions, Porter Ranch Community School has a rare problem. At a time of declining public school enrollment in L.A. and throughout the state, this campus is overcrowded — the only one in the nation’s second-largest school district that is full…

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As students return to school after holiday travel and festivities, respiratory illnesses are at high levels in Los Angeles, with many suffering from a mix of Covid and the flu.  During the week leading up to Dec. 28 and with Covid-19 strain JN. 1 having become dominant, the LA County Department of Public Health reported an average of…

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Varying — and in some cases lacking — definitions and data make the issue hard to track, as experts continue to pursue solutions for both prevention and recovery. Published Dec. 20, 2023 School shootings reached yet another unprecedented high in 2023, outpacing the previous year’s record for the third year in a row. With a…

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