CORE districts turn spotlight on struggling student groups To shine a brighter light on academic disparities, the six California districts known as the CORE districts have tracked test results for much smaller student subgroups than the state requires, giving a more complete picture of how some groups – African-American children and students with disabilities, in...

LAUSD assistant principal arrested on suspicion of sexual misconduct with student William Webb, a popular assistant principal at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s flagship arts high school, was arrested Tuesday morning on suspicion of sexual misconduct with a student. Los Angeles Times Brownish tap water ‘not unsafe,’ DWP assures residents, City News Service San...

L.A. school district reaches $88-million settlement in sex misconduct cases  The Los Angeles school district will pay $88 million to settle sexual abuse cases at two elementary schools where complaints about the teachers’ behavior had surfaced long before their arrest, officials confirmed Monday. The settlement with 30 children and their families, finalized over the weekend,...

LA school board president: Gender neutral bathrooms for all middle and high schools LAUSD officials came out in support of the Obama administration’s guidance for protecting transgender students from discrimination. City News Service A transgender 9-year-old tells her story, Los Angeles Times Schools offer lessons on accommodating transgender students, Los Angeles Daily News States dig...

The key to reducing school suspensions? Treat kids with empathy, says study Researchers from Stanford University found that when teachers are reminded to approach students with an empathic mindset, rates of school suspensions go down. Students who get suspended from school are more likely to later drop out and face jail time. By Rebecca Klein, Huffington Post...

Actor Danny Trejo joins students in discussion over 40-student lunchtime brawl at Sylmar High After a wild brawl involving 40 students at Sylmar High School on Monday, students and actor Danny Trejo met Wednesday night to express their frustration with the school board. “What happened on Monday we would all agree is an unacceptable occurrence,” Superintendent Michelle...

LADWP crews to test for water contamination in South LA LA Department of Water and Power crews Wednesday will test for water contamination after murky water was recently discovered at five elementary schools. CBS Los Angeles Report: Nation needs to replicate California’s English learner efforts, KPCC LA Unified turning to magnet schools to stem enrollment and revenue...

Union-commissioned report says charter schools are bleeding money from traditional ones A teachers union-funded report on charter schools concludes that these largely nonunion campuses are costing LAUSD traditional schools millions of dollars in tax money. It calls for full funding from the federal government for disabled students, more money for charter oversight and higher district...

United front: Teachers unions quietly spend millions on ‘grassroots’ groups Public documents show teachers unions are spending millions of dollars creating front groups that appear to have wide grassroots support when in fact they are staffed, organized and funded by a single special interest. Tracing how these relationships are funded is not always straightforward. By David...

Trump tussled with Los Angeles school board over historical hotel Donald Trump had a bitter public feud with the LAUSD school board over the Ambassador Hotel, where he wanted to build a 125-story office tower. The site of the Robert F. Kennedy assassination in 1968 was preserved and is now the site of six autonomous...