Experts suggest middle and high school start times should be after 8:30 a.m. Around the country, more school districts are moving to delay their start times. Teens currently aren’t getting enough sleep. And this lack of sleep is having a detrimental effect on their grades and mental health. By Rebecca Klein, Huffington Post Superintendent King strives...

UC admissions applicants get more essay choices, shorter lengths Changes are coming soon to the University of California’s application for incoming freshmen and transfer students, offering hundreds of thousands of them more freedom of choice in essays describing their interests, academic achievements and personal challenges. By Larry Gordon, EdSource LAUSD assistant principal pleads not guilty...

Parents to receive easier-to-read reports on Smarter Balanced test scores Parents across California will soon find out how their children performed on Smarter Balanced tests aligned with Common Core standards in math and English language arts. By Theresa Harrington, EdSource Teacher tenure reforms still in play, Orange County Register How to change white teachers’ lenses,...

Remember when teacher evaluations were the subject of controversy in LA Unified? Not anymore Only a few years ago, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s system for evaluating teachers’ job performance was the subject of legal disputes, full-blown lawsuits and bitter fractious debate between district leaders and the teachers union. Not anymore. By Kyle Stokes,...

El Camino High principal moonlighted as NBA scout, billed travel to school David Fehte, principal and executive director of El Camino Real Charter High School, charged his school-issued American Express card for flights, food and hotel stays that align with college basketball games associated with a second job he had as an NBA scout. By...

Cost of suspensions is high for students who drop out after discipline, report finds Putting a cold financial price tag on the impact of school discipline practices, researchers have calculated that a 10th-grade California student who drops out because of suspension could end up costing the public $755,000 in lost tax revenue and increased health...

State officials find LA Unified shortchanged students In a ruling with statewide implications and financial repercussions for the state’s largest school district, the California Department of Education has determined that Los Angeles Unified has shortchanged low-income students, English learners and foster children by hundreds of millions of dollars they should have received through the state’s...

CA lawmakers consider summer benefits for school classified workers A bill that would allow classified workers to collect unemployment insurance even though their school expects them back to work in the fall is expected to come to a vote Wednesday. It would cost the state $90 million the first year and $360 million the fourth. In...

As charters grow, public schools see sharp enrollment drop In financially struggling urban districts from LA to Philadelphia — and most notoriously, Detroit — the increasing popularity of charter schools, combined with family flight to the suburbs and declining birth rates, have caused enrollment to plummet. By Christine Armario, Associated Press Special ed tutor accused...

A small after-school program, branded i.am College Track in homage to founding partner musician will.i.am and his i.am angel foundation, launched in Boyle Heights four years ago with 45 students. Last week it graduated all 45 of them. At a ceremony and reception hosted by College Track Los Angeles’ Advisory Board last Thursday, local leaders Los...