Texas English teacher named national teacher of the year Shanna Peeples works with students facing poverty and traumas related to their immigration to the United States. Huffington Post Data science class offers L.A. Unified students a new handle on math Asking questions of data is the aim of a class being offered at 10 Los...

By Valerie Strauss | The Washington Post The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $2 billion annual testing business,...

Poll hints of political train wreck over Common Core If most parents know little about the Common Core test, how will they react when they learn that a large percentage of kids failed? SI&A Cabinet Report Federal government urges K-12 schools to comply with Title IX The guidance comes against a backdrop of national concern about...

By the Editorial Board On May 19, when Angelenos head back to the polls for runoff elections, there will be three L.A. Unified school board seats in play. Technically, four seats are being decided, but incumbent George McKenna is running unopposed. This is an especially important election because it is the members of the new...

LAUSD developing next steps after iPad-for-every-student troubles The school district is rethinking the future of the $1.3 billion technology initiative. KPCC Fight against vaccination bill finds ally in ACLU An attorney for the ACLU wrote a letter to the bill’s two Democratic authors raising alarms about the bill’s constitutionality. Los Angeles Times New CPS boss...

LA Unified dusted off its giant ribbon cutting scissors today as Board President Richard Vladovic and officials from Bridge Housing, a property development company, unveiled a 90-unit apartment complex in Gardena that will be home for some lucky district employees who essentially are living in poverty. According to a press release sent out this morning, “Of the...

Lydia Gutierrez, a teacher from Long Beach Unified who is mounting a vigorous campaign in LA Unified’s District 7 to unseat board President Richard Vladovic in the May 19 elections, is turning a campaign message for Vladovic against him. A letter supporting Vladovic’s election circulated to voters this month and paid for by the teachers...

By Nicholas Kristof | The New York Times For the last dozen years, waves of idealistic Americans have campaigned to reform and improve K-12 education. Armies of college graduates joined Teach for America. Zillionaires invested in charter schools. Liberals and conservatives, holding their noses and agreeing on nothing else, cooperated to proclaim education the civil rights...

California parents are ill-informed about school reforms, poll finds Fifty-five percent of parents surveyed had never heard of the new computer-based tests. Los Angeles Times California vaccine bill approved by committee on second try Legislation requiring vaccinations for nearly all California schoolchildren revived Wednesday, winning the approval of a Senate committee. Sacramento Bee LAUSD teachers...