More than 100 parents, educators, and students on Monday rallied and chanted outside the Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in downtown Los Angeles to protest the arrest of a father who was taken from his family outside his daughter’s school. “We’re better than Trump, we deserve better than this, we are not...

A coalition of community activist groups concerned with education issued a report to show how California can create a simple rating for schools that all can understand. A busload of three dozen families from Los Angeles will attend a state Board of Education meeting in Sacramento on Wednesday to urge the state to keep it...

*UPDATE The seven LA Unified school board members are often at odds — even though they come together unanimously for votes like picking the new superintendent. But they’re not in unison for any of the school board races, or even necessarily for their fellow board members’ reelection. LA School Report polled all seven of the...

LA Unified is preparing to launch this fall its new and easier way to apply to different kinds of schools within the district, but the system is not going to include charter schools. Not yet, anyway. And that’s not acceptable to stakeholders throughout the district, even those usually on opposite sides of the table. The Unified Enrollment...

LA Unified’s District 4 school board race has prompted more than half a dozen candidate forums, a constant stream of mailers, commercials, and phone calls, and near-record campaign spending. But it wasn’t until Monday night’s forum at the Skirball Cultural Center that the big question was asked publicly. “Why is there so much money being spent...

  LA School Report covers the 2017 LAUSD school board race: See all 13 candidate profiles Name: Steve Zimmer Board district: 4 Age: 46 Lives in: Hollywood Job: two terms on LA Unified’s school board, adjunct instructor at Occidental College in the Urban and Environmental Policy Department Married: No Children in LAUSD: No LAUSD schooling: No...

Questions about Celerity Educational Group, a Los Angeles charter school management organization now under federal investigation, and its relationship with affiliated nonprofit entities have been probed by LA Unified for nearly a decade, according to public documents and school board meetings, and the concerns are widely thought to have prompted last month’s highly publicized raids by seven federal...

Nearly 1,600 LA Unified administrators will be notified in mid-March that their contracts may end in June. But is this attempt at bringing administrative staff more in line with the declining number of students too late to help a looming budget deficit, as some school board members fear? Or will there even be a staff reduction?...

Although he’s currently the recipient of campaign cash in what may be the most expensive school board race ever, LA Unified board President Steve Zimmer pushed through a “Clean Money” resolution on Tuesday but said it is not about him. Zimmer convinced his often disparate group of colleagues on the school board to unanimously approve the...

High school students moderated a forum of the three candidates in the District 2 school board race on Friday night in front of a capacity crowd of 200, with 100 more students waiting to get in. The candidates were asked how they plan to battle Trump administration policies, help underperforming and underprivileged youth, increase the...