Trying to get right with LA Unified, El Camino charter school hands down discipline, policy changes The board of El Camino Real Charter High School has disciplined at least one employee and enacted a long list of changes to its financial policies amid questions from LA Unified officials about “seemingly exorbitant, personal and … improper” transactions made...

By John Fensterwald Sending a strong message endorsing the school accountability system adopted by the State Board of Education, Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have placed more emphasis on standardized test scores in measuring school and district performance. In a message issued Saturday in vetoing Assembly Bill 2548, Brown credited the state board for...

California’s National Distinguished Principal Marcia Reed of LAUSD talks about her school’s successes Marcia Reed, principal of 186th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles Unified, was honored this month as a 2016 National Distinguished Principal by the National Association of Elementary School Principals. The association recognizes one outstanding principal in each of the 50 states...

When your charter school closes 3 weeks into the year, where do you go? In West LA, you have options The students were heartbroken, some parents suspected the worst. When the City High School board decided last week to close its independent charter school after 13 months, it left the 120 students scrambling to find...

By Brenda Gazzar The governing board of El Camino Real Charter High School revised its fiscal policies Wednesday night in its latest effort to placate Los Angeles Unified School District concerns about liberal credit-card spending by school administrators and inadequate board oversight. The meeting of the El Camino Real Alliance board, which took place in...

For the first time, California releases test scores for foster youth California education officials have separated out the standardized test scores of the state’s foster youth — and advocates now have sobering proof of what they long suspected: These students are learning far less than their peers. In 2014-15, the first year scores of the new, harder...

LA Unified paves the way for 15,000 students to take community college classes during their high school day It will be easier for L.A. students to take community college classes for free — while sitting in their high school classrooms. The Los Angeles Unified School District board approved an agreement Tuesday with the Los Angeles Community College...

The LA Unified school board is scheduled to hold an open session meeting today starting at 2 p.m. Key items on the agenda include a consideration of starting school later in the year and an exploration of building workforce housing near Sun Valley High School. The board is also scheduled to hold a second meeting at 6 p.m....

Heat is on L.A. school board over later start for classes On Tuesday, school board members will work through what, if anything, to do about the Los Angeles Unified School District calendar when they debate whether to change when school is in session, moving the academic year away from the intense heat of August to...

By Kyle Stokes Superintendent Michelle King has asked managers in the Los Angeles Unified School District’s central offices to submit plans outlining how they would slash their departments’ budgets by 30 percent in the coming fiscal year, according to a memo obtained by KPCC. For now, it’s just a planning exercise. But top district officials say...