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Candidates for Los Angeles mayor discuss plans to partner with LAUSD for pandemic recovery phase: poverty, mental health, safety on the agenda
This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Three Los Angeles mayoral candidates discussed their vision for Los Angeles Unified schools, touching on issues confronting students ranging from poverty, mental health and public safety. Despite the mayor not having direct control over LA...
By Destiny Torres | May 5, 2022
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Mixed feelings about end of mask mandate in Los Angeles schools
Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Rosemary Miranda was excited to send her first-grade daughter Isabella to school knowing she will be able to remove her mask after the Los Angeles Unified School District...
By Destiny Torres | April 5, 2022
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‘The system is working for some and not for others’: Los Angeles advocates, educators offer solutions to reverse decline in college readiness among Black & Latino students
Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The stark decline in college readiness among LAUSD Black and Latino students brought educators and advocates together last week to discuss what to do about it. The report...
By Destiny Torres | February 22, 2022
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Advice for new LAUSD Superintendent Carvalho: Students, parents, educators and advocates offer their must do lists
Updated This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will welcome Alberto Carvalho as the next superintendent of schools on February 14. As he begins running the nation’s second-largest school system after leading the Miami-Dade public schools...
By Destiny Torres | February 8, 2022