This story was originally published on LAist. When Eduardo Mira started his senior year at Ánimo Pat Brown Charter High School, he thought politics was a “fool’s game.” “All I saw from the media was just negativity and division and, like, political violence,” Mira said. “Nothing good, but now I do see the beauty in...

This story was originally published at the LAist The Los Angeles Unified board unanimously approved a $18.8 billion budget that relies on diminishing reserves to make ends meet. “There is a tempest ahead, uncertainty, instability, a threat to public education as we know it,” Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said as he gave updates to the district’s...

This story was originally published on LAist. The backstory: According to Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, Department of Homeland Security agents entered Russell Elementary and Lillian Street Elementary — both in South L.A.’s Florence-Firestone area — on April 7 and asked to speak with a total of five students. The principals denied those agents entry when they...