Bodycams beginning to percolate in two schools Two school districts are adopting the use of body cameras this fall to record interactions. The Journal Local year-round schools nearly extinct Once common in the Inland area, the schedule has all but disappeared as enrollment has slowed in recent years. The Press-Enterprise CSBA calls on high court...

It’s Kumbaya time again for the LA Unified school board. In addition to their next regularly-schedule meeting, Tuesday, Sept. 1, board members are gathering for a “retreat” two days earlier, at a still-to-be-determined time and place on Sunday, Aug. 30. It’s the first such meeting since Superintendent Ramon Cortines returned nearly a year ago, and...

By Zahira Torres California’s labor oversight board has issued a complaint alleging that the largest charter school organization in Los Angeles interfered with the right of its teachers to unionize. The complaint filed by attorneys with the Public Employment Relations Board alleges that charter school leaders violated state laws by denying pro-union organizers access to...

Libraries reach out to day care homes to help improve quality The outreach is a small but innovative part of a statewide effort to improve the quality of day care centers. EdSource Former L.A. teacher pleads no contest to child abuse against student Thelmo Garcia, 37, was ordered to complete 52 weeks of child abuse...

By Sarah Tully A group of Los Angeles students who are new to the United States spent part of their summer break learning algebra in a pilot program with materials that are lacking in most places nationwide – Common Core-aligned lessons in Spanish. For five weeks, high school students completed an algebra class given in both...

Study: Billions of dollars in annual teacher training is largely a waste The study found no evidence that any particular approach or amount of professional development consistently helps teachers improve. Washington Post Good news for New Orleans The city has provided the first direct test of an alternative to the system that has dominated American...

By Jill Stewart By all rights, 96th Street Elementary School in Watts shouldn’t be busy on a summer morning. School doesn’t start until Aug. 18, and the front door is hemmed in by construction fencing to boot. But parents keep popping by the plain brick complex under the roaring flight path of LAX. One mother...

LAUSD plan cuts arts instruction to nine weeks per subject The program, known as the Creative Network Pilot, launched last year in 31 schools and will expand this fall to an additional 10 schools. KPCC Is studying the arts in school important? This twelve-minute film explores the stories of artists, educators, parents, administrators, politicians and...

By The Editorial Board Five years after California’s parent-trigger law was passed, it has not had the dramatic effect on public schools that its proponents hoped it would. Yet it is already at a crossroads in its young life. The law, passed in haste in 2010 in an effort to empower parents at lower-performing schools,...

Is the Friedrichs case an ‘existential threat’ to the teachers’ unions? The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Friedrichs vs. California case next year, giving it a chance to strike down union “agency fees.” Education Next Neighbors push back against private schools’ plans to expand Elite private campuses throughout the Los Angeles area are...