Carvalho says the successful reading program is costly and doesn’t reach enough students LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is doubling down on his decision to replace a much-loved early reading intervention program known as Primary Promise with a new model to support students struggling with reading and math. His decision is backed by the district’s elected school board,…

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The LAUSD Board of Education passed a resolution on Tuesday, June 6, urging schools to incorporate more lessons on the LGBTQ community after someone burned a transgender teacher’s Pride flag at Saticoy Elementary School and parents protested against the school’s assembly at which a book reading explained same-sex parents. The board resolution passed unanimously and called for a renewed focus…

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Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Alberto Carvalho defended changes to the Primary Promise intervention program, expanding its focus beyond helping struggling K-2 readers to reaching older students and training more teachers. Carvalho detailed the plan at a Tuesday board meeting after facing criticism for dismantling the flagship initiative of his predecessor, Austin Beutner, earlier…

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L.A. Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho wants to dramatically increase the number of high schools offering prestigious online college courses for the fall to boost enrollment and increase pathways to college — but so far the goal is elusive. In an interview with LA School Report in early May, Carvalho said he was confident 30 schools…

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A sweeping agreement announced Friday between unions and Los Angeles school officials will result in a longer school year, a return to a three-week winter break and a reboot of controversial acceleration days. The deal also includes the resolution of legal issues, including some that could have proved to be important test cases for future labor negotiations.…

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Amid pushback, board sets public presentation for June 6 Alberto Carvalho came to Los Angeles Unified last year having delivered impressive academic results at the helm of Miami-Dade, another large urban district grappling with myriad challenges. Among the hallmarks of his 14-year tenure in Florida are a centralized approach to education, a passion for data and…

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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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