In iPad Project, Key Need Emerges Los Angeles school officials are acknowledging a new looming cost in a $1-billion effort to provide iPads to every student: keyboards. Officials so far have not budgeted that expense, but they said the wireless keyboards are recommended for students when they take new state standardized tests. If keyboards were...

In shadow of March on DC, schools increasingly segregated in California Fifty years after the March on Washington, a major challenge facing California and the West in general is increasing segregation of black and Latino students, reviving a debate that Brown v Board of Education was supposed to resolve: whether it is possible to have...

 LAUSD launches its drive to equip every student with iPads Two local elementary schools became the first to roll out tablet computers Tuesday in a $1-billion effort to put iPads in the hands of every student in the Los Angeles Unified School District. For Broadacres, in Carson, the tablets were an exhilarating upgrade for a...

New Ninth Street School Deserves Community, Business Support Editorial: Amid all the Downtown development activity, one big-budget project has been frequently overlooked. The project is the Ninth Street Elementary School, which, like all Los Angeles Unified School District institutions, began classes on the ridiculously early date of Aug. 13. About 300 kindergarten through fifth grade...

School bullying prevention efforts falling short, state audit says Responding to concerns that schools should do more to stop bullying, a new state audit found that most schools do not track whether their anti-bullying programs have made campuses any safer and that schools are inconsistent in how they record and resolve bullying incidents. Oversight and...

Schools rising from budget depths, EdSource report finds With the passage of Proposition 30 and implementation of a new funding system channeling more money to most districts this fall, the 2012-13 school year will be the base for measuring how well schools recover from the Great Recession. Yet as EdSource documents in a report issued...

L.A. Unified President Pushes Board’s Authority to Set Policy The new president of the Los Angeles Unified school board is moving aggressively to reshape the panel’s operation and mission, including plans to improve communication, enhance collaboration and take a more decisive stance in setting district policy. Richard Vladovic of San Pedro will lay out his...