LA School Report

Sitting diligently in a South Carolina elementary school classroom, Brian Rashad Fuller felt awash with pride, confusion and fear. School was becoming the place he poured all his energy into, on the heels of his father’s incarceration and uncle’s murder. But simultaneously, from as young as four years old, disgusted looks from educators taught him...

The number of homeless students who attend Los Angeles Unified schools rose by more than a quarter in the last school year, new statistics show.  As of the 2023-2024 school year, LAUSD enrolled 17,245 homeless students, up 26% from the previous school year, according to data the district made public last month. The dramatic jump...

Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed documents from the bankruptcy of failed education technology company AllHere, a once-lauded startup that boasted $12 million in venture capital and a $6 million contract with Los Angeles schools to build a buzzy AI chatbot. The U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York served the grand jury subpoena...

Born and raised in LA Unified’s District 5, Graciela Ortiz is running for a position on the LAUSD School Board. The UCLA and Cal State Long Beach alum is a licensed clinical social worker who is running to represent the neighborhoods in Northeast LA and much of Southeast LA, from Eagle Rock to South Gate. ...

Low performing schools are twice as likely to have lost substantial numbers of students – with nearly 500 losing 20% or more since the pandemic, marking them potential candidates for closures, a new national report has revealed. Analysis released yesterday by the Fordham Institute put forth a list of close to 500 strained schools as...

As a district-wide cell phone ban is set to go into effect early next year, some Los Angeles Unified schools already have a no phone policy — but it’s hardly ever enforced, students at one school said. At Panorama High School & Magnets, students follow the district’s current cell phone policy which allows electronic devices...

All of the conditions that have bedeviled students’ post-COVID learning recovery — high rates of absenteeism, school staffing shortages, academic setbacks and disruptions — have been worse for English learners and students with disabilities, according to the latest State of the American Student report. “The thing that really struck us as we looked across all of the...

Ever since my senior year of high school in the suburban San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles, I have tutored students ranging from elementary to high school.  I have always enjoyed working with students and felt it is a way to give back to the community.  When I enrolled at the University of Southern California...

For months, Wendy Rodas felt disempowered and silenced whenever she tried to reach out to her daughter’s Missouri elementary school. The El Salvadorian mother of three, who primarily speaks Spanish, struggled to communicate with teachers, administrators and district leaders. She made repeated requests for the interpretation services that she — and all public school parents who...

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...