LA Unified has entered six district-produced videos into the People’s Telly Awards and is asking for votes to help it win. The awards honor local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs, and the winners are selected through an online voting system. Voting ends June 5. The videos include two about of the Aspen Challenge,...

By Molly Knefel Last week, President Obama issued an executive order to regulate the use of military equipment within local police departments, as part of an ongoing effort to address police violence in communities of color. Images of officers rolling through the streets of Ferguson – and, more recently, Baltimore – in armored tanks pushed the issue...

Editorial: The governor who didn’t bark Twenty-three months later, it is difficult to not be deeply cynical about what’s happened to the Local Control Funding Formula. U-T San Diego School may be the best place to address PTSD A lawsuit alleges that California’s Compton Unified School District has failed to properly address its students’ experiences...

By Nita Lelyveld The STEM Academy of Hollywood is perched above eight lanes of traffic on the 101 Freeway. Its classroom windows offer the high school engineers a bird’s-eye view of some of Los Angeles’ most enduring woes. Too many cars. Too much cement. A freeway system that slices through neighborhoods, leaving them uninviting to...

By Rob Lapsley Latinos are now the largest ethnic group in California and will continue growing. Half of all children under 18 in California are Latino. The demographic change impacts just about every aspect of our society, none more critically than our economy. With this young and growing population, California has a consumer market and...

California budget fight: Predictions more than programs The state government’s annual fiscal blueprint is drawn not with real data but with projections about tax revenues. KQED New commission to focus on California’s early education services A coalition of policymakers, business and community leaders launched a new effort Thursday to “modernize” the state’s early childhood services....

Last month, leaders from Students Matter held a conference call to rail against several bills in the California legislature that the group deemed “anti-Vergara.” Today the group is claiming a partial victory over Assembly Bill 753 after the Assembly Appropriations Committee voted to hold it in committee, essentially killing it for the current session. The bill would...

Richard Vladovic, who is completing his second and final term as LA Unified board president, won by the widest margin of the three board elections last week, according to a final accounting by the Los Angeles City Clerk, released today. His margin of victory over his District 7 challenger, Lydia Gutierrez, was 12.57 percent. In...

By The Times Editorial Board It’s all too typical at the Los Angeles Unified School District: Leaders want to make a change to help the district’s students, but instead of investigating costs, options and whether the change is even achievable or desirable, the board forges ahead. Only after it has committed itself do the very...

The case for starting sex education in kindergarten By law, all primary school students in the Netherlands must receive some form of sexuality education. The system allows for flexibility in how it’s taught. PBS LAUSD to pay $4.42 million in 3 Pacoima molestation lawsuits The lawsuits alleged the district was negligent in its supervision of...