The Morning Read
Your Daily Roundup of LAUSD news from across the web | 10.05.21
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How A South Central L.A. Elementary School Built A Culture of ‘Family’
It is a sunny Friday afternoon in South Central LA, music blasting through the speakers at Figueroa Street Elementary School as nine-year-old Alan runs around the playground with friends, a smile across his face. “Everyone is very nice to me, and I feel like I belong here,” said Alan, a third grader. “I feel like...
By Katie VanArnam | February 13, 2025
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California Wildfires Force Students to Think About the Connections Between STEM and Society
This story was originally published on The Conversation. Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: “STEM & Social Impact: Climate Change” What prompted the idea for the course? Harvey Mudd College’s mission is to educate STEM students – short for science, technology, engineering and math –...
By Erika Dyson & Darryl Yong | February 12, 2025
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Demand for Immigration Legal Services Spikes At California Colleges
This story was originally published on CalMatters. As President Donald Trump begins his second term with a declaration of a national emergency at the southern border and a steadfast pledge of mass deportations, California’s colleges and universities have been holding workshops and partnering with legal service nonprofits to help undocumented students on their campuses stay...
By Delilah Brumer & Mercy Sosa, CalMatters | February 5, 2025
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USC Professor Warns of LA Fires’ Trauma Impact for Children
Firefighters have now contained deadly wildfires that just after the new year devastated whole swaths of Los Angeles. Schools are reopening and, for some families, life is returning to normal. But the historic blazes, which in January prompted the emergency closure of the nation’s second-largest district and burned some schools completely, made a lasting impression...
By Ben Chapman | February 4, 2025
Investigation: Nearly 1,000 Native Children Died in Federal Boarding Schools
Podcast: What a Mentorship Mindset Can Do for Student Motivation
Black and Hispanic Voters Say Democrats Aren’t Focused Enough on K-12 Education
Teen Activist Rhea Maniar on the Power of Abortion to Turn Out Young Voters
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Will New Bond Funds Be Enough to Rebuild LA Schools?
This story was originally published on CalMatters. It’ll be a while before Los Angeles can fully assess the damage to its schools from this recent spate of fires, but a few things already seem certain: rebuilding will take a long time, it will be expensive, and it may sap the statewide fund for school repairs. At least a...
By Carolyn Jones, CalMatters | February 3, 2025
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Online Censorship in Schools Is ‘More Pervasive’ than Expected, New Data Shows
This story was originally published on CalMatters. Aleeza Siddique, 15, was in a Spanish class earlier this year in her Northern California high school when a lesson about newscasts got derailed by her school’s internet filter. Her teacher told the class to open up their school-issued Chromebooks and explore a list of links he had curated from the...
By Tara García Mathewson, CalMatters | January 30, 2025
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New NAEP Scores Dash Hope of Post-COVID Learning Recovery
Hopes for a post-COVID academic recovery were dashed Wednesday morning with the publication of new federal testing data for elementary and middle schoolers. Newly released scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often referred to as the Nation’s Report Card, show that both fourth and eighth graders have lost ground in reading — not...
By Kevin Mahnken | January 29, 2025
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Content Guru Natalie Wexler Urges Us to Move ‘Beyond The Science of Reading’
Over the past few years, millions of educators have embraced the science of reading, in many cases radically transforming how the youngest students learn how to read. But a new book argues that the current approach remains deeply flawed. Though phonics instruction has emerged as a key component of reading lessons, stagnant NAEP scores, among...
By Greg Toppo | January 28, 2025
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California Rural Schools Battle for Funding Congress Cut
This story was originally published on CalMatters. Rural school districts — already beset with financial struggles — are furiously scrambling to save a century-old funding source that Republican lawmakers last month eliminated from the federal budget. The Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, which has been approved almost continuously since 1908, is intended to compensate rural counties...
By Carolyn Jones, CalMatters | January 27, 2025
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For Childcare Providers, Wildfires Are Just One More Crisis
This story was originally published at LAist In an instant, Blanca Carrillo and her daughter Aurys Hernandez lost everything. Their home in Altadena was also the place they’d built a thriving daycare for young children. So when it burned in the Eaton Fire, they were left homeless and without work all at the same time. “Overnight...
By Libby Rainey, LAist | January 23, 2025