District may also consider closing or consolidating schools as enrollment keeps declining, superintendent says  Los Angeles Unified has enacted a targeted hiring freeze and may consider closing or consolidating schools as it faces the loss of federal pandemic aid and declining enrollment, superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in an interview last week. Carvalho, who nearly two years ago assumed leadership of…

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Is teaching 7th grade harder than teaching 3rd grade? Is a transfer from a high school principal’s position to the central office a “materially adverse” change? What about a school security guard’s move from a high school to a middle school? Those are some of the questions lower courts have faced in the context of…

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For her 17th birthday, Jeramie Naya Vives Osorio’s family showered her with gifts: a dozen pink roses, a stack of Beard Papa‘s cream puffs, a Strawberry Sweet cake from the Korean bakery Tous les Jours and a small silver necklace from Tiffany.  Michelle Vives knew her middle daughter — Jer to her friends, Mia to…

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School shootings — on the overall rise for decades — have broken last year’s record high at 306 shootings with just under two months left to go in the year. Published Nov. 10, 2023 K-12 Dive The number of U.S. school shootings in 2023 surpassed last year’s record-breaking number of 305 school shootings on Thursday, according to a count…

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Los Angeles Unified School District will pay $19.9 million to settle sexual abuse claims against a former teacher’s assistant at a North Hollywood elementary school, including an allegation that he made one young girl repeatedly position herself in a “puppy pose” while he rubbed his hands against her.  The latest settlement adds to a long…

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Attorneys have finalized a settlement involving litigation brought against the Los Angeles Unified School District that, if approved by a judge, will pay millions of dollars to multiple girls who allege they were molested by a former teacher’s assistant at a North Hollywood elementary school. The plaintiffs are identified as Jane Does in the Los…

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A healthy, collaborative school culture is a springboard that propels students to academic excellence—and teachers to professional growth, said Andrew Farley, principal of Brookfield East High School, in Brookfield, Wisc. The National Association of Secondary School Principals named Farley its 2024 Principal of the Year on Oct. 20, citing his efforts to close the achievement…

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Los Angeles Times, September 27, 2023 When Tropical Storm Hilary drenched the interior of a building rented by a charter school at Eastman Elementary — destroying books and computers — some 75 charter students moved into the auditorium and library of the main campus, straining resources and patience.  “It’s just very unfair that the whole school basically…

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Administrators took in more than $750,000 combined in extra pay over three years. By Howard Blume A small group of Los Angeles Unified School District employees collected more than $750,000 combined in extra pay over three years, much of it improperly approved, prompting investigations and leading to the demotions, reassignments or departuresof at least 10 employees,…

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Jackie Goldberg, the president of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s school board, announced earlier this month that she will retire in December 2024 after completing her current term.  Goldberg has worked in public service for more than four decades, starting as a teacher in the 1960s, and won her first LAUSD school board election…

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The August 22nd LAUSD Board of Education meeting opened with a march and protest that turned into an unlawful assembly, with several protestors detained. Parents from as far as San Diego joined Saticoy Elementary parents to protest the Board’s support for LGBTQIA+ students. A smaller group of counter protestors in support of LGBTQIA+ students quickly…

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As a nation, we are confronting an alarming crisis in K-12 education that goes beyond the effects of a global pandemic. Before the pandemic, roughly 1 in 10 students in Los Angeles County and across our state were chronically absent. Now, in many schools, almost half of our students are missing from our classrooms on…

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