LAUSD hammering out details of iPad compromise Los Angeles Unified officials began laying the groundwork Wednesday for the second phase of the district’s $1 billion technology project — one that will include about 70,000 more iPads, plus a test of laptops at several high schools and an in-depth comparison of which device works best. LA...

LAUSD board won’t censure Vladovic for alleged sexual harassment The first-ever effort to censure a Los Angeles Unified board member failed Tuesday when members declined to formally reprimand President Richard Vladovic for alleged sexual harassment and bullying of two district employees. LA Daily News L.A. Unified schools to move forward with trimmed-down iPad plan A...

Check back here at 1pm PST today to watch live coverage of today’s LA Unified School Board meeting.  On the agenda (in addition to the censure motion of school board president who has accused of sexual harassment, and the future of the iPad rollout) are a number of renewals and approvals of various charter schools,...

Kumbaya at the L.A. school board? Editorial: The Los Angeles Unified school board members were conspicuously courteous to the administration staff and to one another at last week’s meeting, their first since the hullabaloo over Supt. John Deasy’s resignation threat. The board and Deasy smoothed that one over, but it was clear that the new, less...

LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy is expected to attend the school board tomorrow, following his absence from the special meeting last Tuesday that focused on technology issues. He had a legitimate excuse: His ownership of stock in Apple, Inc., created a conflict of interest, precluding his participation in conversations about the district’s on-going use of...