Andrew Thomas, who finished third in the recent District 5 school board race with 26 percent of the vote, said today he would not endorse either candidate in the May 19 runoff, Ref Rodriguez and Bennett Kayser. “I ran for this seat to bring the voices of parents and kids to the school board,” Thomas...

By Carly Berwick | The Atlantic Last month, New York City’s Department of Education, under Chancellor Carmen Fariña, called for an end to principal-led school suspensions without prior approval—a practice that grew in popularity during the Bloomberg years as part of a focus on “broken windows,” or small crimes that herald disorder. And the Los Angeles Unified...

East LA Kindergarten Students Receive College Admission Certificates Kindergarten students received college admission certificates Tuesday through a program that aims to promote successful educational outcomes. CBS Los Angeles Boys’ basketball: No trainer at playoff game for hurt Fairfax player There are only a few schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District with athletic trainers....

By AFT President Randi Weingarten | U.S. News and World Report The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act started out with good intentions to help improve schools and student performance. But it took a wrong turn in both delivering the funding promised, and in creating, because it focused on the sanctions imposed if student test...

The debate over the value of standardized tests in K-12 education is nothing new, but the topic seems to have reached a boiling point lately: Protest movements are forming against standardized tests, a debate is ongoing in Congress about tying test results to federal funding and the struggle in LA Unified continues, aimed at meeting the online capabilities...

LAUSD data shows art students can’t always progress Los Angeles Unified’s feeder school system is broken when it comes to arts education, a survey of school principals reveals. KPCC Venice High assault arrests stun students, parents; 11th teen arrested Officers arrested an 11th Venice High School student Monday in connection with alleged sex crimes that...

Donna Muncey, an aide to John Deasy in three different school districts, is leaving LA Unified to work under Tommy Chang, who served as a regional superintendent in LA Unified until his recent appointment as Superintendent of Boston Public Schools. Muncey was Chief of Intensive Support and Intervention under Deasy before his successor, Ramon Cortines,...

By Stephanie Simon | Politico Education reformers stymied by teachers unions and liberal state legislatures increasingly are turning to the courts to get their way on everything from funding charter schools to making it easier to fire teachers. It’s an end-run strategy championed by Republican and Democratic reformers alike: When they find it hard to...

The Vergara case is moving back into public view with appeal briefs from the defendants, who lost, due before a three-judge panel on March 30. Once the papers from the state and the two teachers unions, California Federation of Teachers and California Teachers Association, have been filed, lawyers for the plaintiffs have 40 days to...

L.A. teachers launch union drive at Alliance charter schools Teachers at the largest charter school organization in LA have launched a drive to unionize. Los Angeles Times School reserve cap could harm long-term capital projects Sources said last week that school administrator and finance groups, seeking a repeal of the reserve cap, have met with...