Los Angeles schools have lost thousands of immigrant students for years because of the city’s rising prices and falling birth rates — and now that trend has intensified after the “chilling effect” of this year’s federal immigration raids, district officials said. This school year, the Los Angeles school district has lost more than 13,000 immigrant...

They are two LAUSD schools just a mile apart. Yet in many ways Canfield Avenue Elementary School and Shenandoah Elementary School in the Beverlywood and Reynier Village neighborhoods of Los Angeles are worlds apart.  Canfield’s student body is 46% white, while Shenandoah is 95% Black and Hispanic. Canfield has a pass rate of 77% on...

In a win for the nation’s second-largest school district, Los Angeles Unified students bounced back from the pandemic, posting big gains on state reading and math tests.  L.A. Unified surpassed pre-pandemic math, reading and science levels on 2024-25 state test scores released Thursday and closed the gap with the rest of California, even as the...

Last year, the Los Angeles YMCA held backpack giveaways for migrant families and needy students in public parks and community centers.  This year the giveaways were held in classrooms, afraid that crowds of Hispanic families out in public would prompt an ICE raid. “We’ve had to modify how we do things,” said Omar Torres, senior...

The night before school, Adriana Abich always gets nervous. Nervous there won’t be enough school supplies for new students, or that classrooms won’t be quite ready.  But this year is different.  This year, the CEO of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy is worried immigration agents with guns are coming for her kids. “There are so many...

Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified the court that struck down Los Angeles Unified’s policy banning charters from using classrooms. The judge was from the California State Superior Court. The article also incorrectly identified the institution where Yvette King-Berg works. She is the executive director of Youth Policy Institute Charter Schools. The nation’s...

Updated July 28 Los Angeles Unified superintendent Alberto Carvalho struck a defiant tone in his back-to-school address Tuesday, pitting the district against federal authorities while praising its resilience from recent wildfires and the pandemic. Three weeks before half a million L.A. Unified students return to classes, Carvalho used the annual speech to preview new initiatives...

Looming funding cuts threaten the academic progress of Black students in districts across California, according to a report by researchers at the University of Southern California. “The Cost of Equity: Exploring Recent K-12 Federal and State Funding Shifts and Their Impact on Black Students,” examines how changes in legislative and policy could impact California’s school...

Families are mostly satisfied with their LAUSD schools — although they want improvements in school safety and better mental health services for students, an annual survey of district parents has found. The 79-page “Family Insights” report found LAUSD families saw improvements in their schools in the past year, with support for leadership of the nation’s...

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said Monday school police will create “perimeters of safety” around high school graduation ceremonies to keep out immigration enforcement agents after federal raids rocked the city last week.  Speaking at a press conference at LAUSD headquarters, Carvalho also said the district would offer transportation to graduation events,...