LAUSD May Seek Change to Parent Trigger Law Of the five times the law has been engaged in California, three were in the LAUSD, leading at least one board member to suggest tweaks to the way parent triggers work. California Report See also: LA School Report, KPCC, LA Times Tough Choices at LAUSD Union allies...

Facing its First Budget Increase in Years, LA Unified Board Members Set to Debate How to Spend it Los Angeles Unified School District’s board of education is set to vote Tuesday on next fiscal year’s budget. For the first time in years, members will not be faced with figuring out where to make drastic cuts....

Deasy and New Board Member Ratliff Laud Teacher Report Both were responding to recommendations in two reports developed by a small group of L.A.-area teachers under the guidance of Educators4Excellence, an advocacy group funded by influential national nonprofits including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation. LA Times See also: LA...

California’s New Transitional Kindergarten: A Glimpse into Universal Pre-K The 23 children in Azizi’s Winnetka classroom were a combination of Kindergarten and Transitional Kindergarten students. Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is the new grade level that California created for children who just missed the age cutoff for kindergarten.The new grade, which started this year, is meant to...

New K-12 Funding Formula Gets Thumbs Up from Local School Superintendents A compromise deal that would overhaul the funding system for California’s public schools was hailed Tuesday by education leaders who said it would channel more money to all districts, even in well-to-do suburbs, and give a bigger financial boost to those with large numbers...

Brown, Top Lawmakers Raise Base Funding in Finance Formula In a nod to suburban districts that argued they would be shortchanged, Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders negotiated a new version of Brown’s plan for school finance reform that will increase the base funding level for all students and lower the extra dollars for some...

Important LA Public Education Jobs are Changing Hands There’s a game of musical chairs going on in Los Angeles public education, and while the people involved may not be household names, they can play a key role in charting the direction of the L.A. Unified School District. KPCC A.J. Duffy, Still-Feisty Former Teachers Union Chief, Retires...

Deal Likely on School Finance Reform, Steinberg Says The Senate has dropped its call for a year’s delay in implementing Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan for sweeping K-12 finance reform, making it likely a deal over Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula will be struck in the next few days, Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said...

LAUSD Offers New Settlement to Miramonte Students The Los Angeles Unified School District previously reached a settlement with 58 Miramonte Elementary School students and parents of students in a sexual abuse lawsuit in March.  LAUSD offered $17 million Wednesday to settle lawsuits by about 40 students and their families alleging sexual abuse at Miramonte Elementary...

LAUSD Board Postpones Discussion About Budget Plans to Next Board Meeting L.A. Unified School District board members on Tuesday postponed until June 18 its discussion about two proposals for use of new state funding, but that didn’t keep parents and representatives from teachers union from using the public comments portion of the meeting to let board members know their...