Advice for LA Superintendent John Deasy: Should he stay or should he go? At stake is leadership of the second-largest school district in the U.S., a sprawling system of more than 677,000 students, beset by a litany of crisis, including budget shortfalls, intense board politics, tougher academic standards, a troubled one-to-one Ipad initiative and a...

Civic leaders mobilizing to support LA schools chief A University of California regent is gathering support from civic, business and philanthropic leaders to pressure the seven member Board of Education of the Los Angeles Unified School District to “make every effort” to retain the services of John Deasy, its embattled school superintendent. EdSource  Deasy, LAUSD...

L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy may leave in coming months Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy, who has led the nation’s second-largest school system since 2011, has told some top district officials that he could be leaving in coming months. Deasy declined to discuss his intentions Thursday evening, saying that he has not submitted a...

LAUSD makes progress in meeting mandated special-education targets Twenty years after a disabled student filed suit seeking access to an equal education, Los Angeles Unified has made “considerable” progress in making court-ordered improvements to its special-education programs, according to a report released Wednesday. LA Daily News LAUSD trails state on physical fitness tests A majority of...

Segregating English learners in schools Editorial: Segregating young children for whom English is a new language according to their fluency levels produces the best academic results, according to most research. So the Los Angeles Unified School District has little choice in the matter. And yet there is reason for concern. LA Times API rewrite approaches deadline, solutions...

LA Unified embarks on revamp of devastated adult education program The Los Angeles Unified School system is embarking on a process to revamp its adult education programs – one of the biggest victims of years of budget cuts – and it’s teaming up with the city and business interests to come up with the plan....

L.A. Unified’s English learner action upsets parents, teachers Luis Gaytan, the 5-year-old son of Mexican immigrants who speak Spanish at home, was so terrified by kindergarten that he would barely talk — prompting classmates to tease that he didn’t have a tongue. LA Times CA’s $250M investment in linked learning complicated by rules, regs The...

LAUSD board president Vladovic facing censure motion Los Angeles Unified board member Tamar Galatzan on Thursday released an unprecedented motion asking the board to censure its president, Richard Vladovic, who has been accused of harassment and intimidation by two district employees. It also asks that Vladovic publicly acknowledge any misconduct on his part and “take...

Prop. 39 energy retrofit funds heading to California schools State officials have directed $381 million to California schools to retrofit aging campuses for energy efficiency, releasing a list Tuesday that shows how much each district will get. The money comes from voter approval last year of Proposition 39, which raises taxes on out-of-state corporations. Sacramento...

 L.A. schools chief wants to extend iPad rollout by a year The rollout for a $1-billion school iPad program could be extended by a year, doubling the time originally allotted for getting tablets to every student in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The decision is a substantial concession to critics who questioned whether the...