More than two decades of working as an educator couldn’t prepare Juliet Herman for the night of January 7, when her school, Palisades Charter Elementary School, burnt to the ground, along with the homes of many of her students and teachers. Wildfires devastated the Los Angeles community of the Pacific Palisades that night, destroying homes...

Reading rates in LAUSD schools with the onset of the coronavirus, and Los Angeles students have yet to fully recover.  Just 43.1% of LA Unified students met state proficiency targets in reading in the 2023-24 school year, compared with 44.1% in the 2018-19 school year, the last before the pandemic. Meanwhile, Families in Schools is...