* UPDATED The state’s two teachers unions — the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers — filed their appeal today in the landmark education case they lost last year, Vergara v. California. The lower court ruling declared unconstitutional state laws that govern teacher seniority, dismissal and layoffs. The unions called the lawsuit...

Andrew Thomas, who finished third behind Ref Rodriguez and Bennett Kayser in the District 5 school board primary election, has complained to Kayser that an invitation to a Kayser fundraiser this afternoon incorrectly says Thomas is supporting him in the May 19 runoff. An email from Kayser’s campaign circulated yesterday describes Kayser as “The choice...

By Leila Meyer | The Journal This year 91 percent of teachers used some of their own money to pay for school supplies, and 38 percent used only their own money, according to a new report from The NPD Group. The report, “Today’s Teachers: School Supply Purchasing Dynamics and Behaviors,” surveyed almost 1,000 K-12 public and...

Popular LA pre-school language program is targeted once again A popular and well-regarded preschool program in Los Angeles would be shut down over the next two years under a district proposal to cut costs. Ed Source AB 47 passes with bipartisan support out of Assembly education committee Assembly Education Committee members, advocates, superintendents, and faith...

By Amy Julia Harris | Reveal Bible verses, calls to accept Jesus and the promise of eternal life can be heard in two disparate places in a southeastern suburb of Los Angeles: the Calvary Chapel Chino Hills megachurch and the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education. Three of the five school board members...

$25-50m in anti-truancy funding likely The legislation sailed through its first hearing Wednesday and now goes to the Appropriations Committee for passage to the Senate floor. SI&A Cabinet Report Judge to give new sentences in Atlanta cheating trial Three of the highest-ranking educators convicted in the Atlanta Public Schools test-cheating trial will get new sentences...

By Howard Blume | Los Angeles Times An audit of a charter school co-founded by a Board of Education candidate has been withheld from public release at the request of a school board member, L.A. Unified district officials have confirmed. Two well-placed district sources said that the release of the audit was delayed at the request...

Man sentenced to prison for theft of thousands of textbooks Corey Frederick was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison and ordered to repay $793,306 to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Santa Cruz Sentinel School boards and administrators oppose teacher evaluation bills A fundamental disagreement over granting teachers the power to negotiate...

More than 3,000 government, business, science, tech and and philanthropy leaders have been gathering in Los Angeles over the past few days for the annual Milken Institute Global Conference. The conference mission is to find answers to some of the world’s biggest problems, and one of the major topics under discussion this year is education....

By Annie Gilbertson | KPCC One in three Asian students is labeled as gifted by his or her school, according to data released by the Los Angeles Unified School District for a school board committee meeting scheduled today. The latest numbers again raise questions about the over- and under-representation of ethnic groups in the district’s Gifted and...