The LA Unified school board is scheduled to hold an open session meeting today. The agenda includes a vote on next year’s budget and Local Control Accountability Plan. Click here to watch the livestream of the meeting.

More preschool seats coming to LA in state budget plan The state budget that lawmakers sent to Gov. Jerry Brown this week could open up scores of new preschool seats in the LA area and prompt the re-opening of an early education center. But the gains represent just a fraction of the high need that remains as many...

By the Times Editorial Board Because of new rules designed to raise graduation standards, officials of the Los Angeles Unified School District woke up in December to the grim news that only half of its students were on track to graduate, down from 74 percent the year before. The problem was that this was the first...

AP classes are tougher, but students are better prepared for college Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Cambridge courses are increasing rapidly in high schools. This includes places like Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C., where 99 percent of the students are low-income and few land on the high-achievement end of any bell curve. But teachers...

Looking over some of the things Trump has said and not said about education There’s still a mystery swirling at the center of the Trump platform: education. Rarely has a politician successfully gotten this far after saying so little about our nation’s classrooms. By Carolyn Phenicie, The 74 State budget heads to Gov. Brown: How education...

LAUSD may create college savings accounts for its 640,000 students The school district would partner with the city of Los Angeles and outside groups including the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce to hammer out the specifics of how the accounts would be opened, and possibly include matching funds for deposits. By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, KPCC Study: schools...

California moves to catch up on K-12 computer science curriculum After years of lagging behind Arkansas, West Virginia and several other states, California is expanding computer science in public schools across the state and training teachers to teach it. By Pat Maio, EdSource Less test-iness over LA teacher evaluations, LA Times LAUSD gets $1M to...

California and proposed federal regulations at odds on how to rate schools Despite close parallels between California’s school reforms and those called for in the new federal law signed by President Barack Obama last December, California and the U.S. Department of Education appear to be on a collision course regarding the rating systems each wants...

By Judy Lin One by one, dozens of blacks and Latinos lined up behind a microphone placed before the state school board appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown. Spanish-speaking mothers pleaded for the 10-member panel to evaluate schools based on parent involvement because they have felt unwelcome at their children’s schools. African-American students asked the state...