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Los Angeles Unified Teachers to Provide High-Dosage Tutoring

This story was originally published by Edsource The Los Angeles Unified School District is looking to focus on teacher-led, high-dosage tutoring to meet the requirements of a settlement that requires LAUSD to provide 10 million hours of tutoring to 100,000 students over three years. Shaw et al. v. LAUSD et al. was filed during the...
By Mallika Seshadri | April 30, 2026
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LA Needs 100,000 Construction Workers. Community Colleges Are Racing to Train Them

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Hudson Idov wasn’t excited about any of his college options — that is, until his Los Angeles house burned down in the Palisades Fire his senior year of high school. Less than a week after graduation, he and one of his classmates enrolled...
By Adam Echelman, CalMatters | April 23, 2026
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California Students Author New ‘Digital Wellness’ Bill, Say School Cellphone Bans Fall Short

This story was originally published on EdSource. After taking a break from social media, Orange County student Elise Choi helped write a bill that would mandate California schools teach digital wellness — a response to growing concerns about how technology is affecting students’ mental health. Assembly Bill 2071 would require California schools to include digital...
By Vani Sanganeria, EdSource | April 22, 2026
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Four Takeaways From the Triple-Union, LAUSD Agreements Averting a Strike

This story was originally published on EdSource. With contract negotiations between the Los Angeles School District and three unions coming down to the wire, the district’s 400,000 students and their families didn’t know when they went to sleep Monday night whether there would be school Tuesday morning. In the end, school is open this week...
By Mallika Seshadri and Betty Márquez Rosales, EdSource | April 21, 2026
What Will Life Be Like After the Education Department? Look at What Came Before, Experts Say
Opinion: What a Hallway Sprint Taught Me About Chronic Absenteeism
Analysis: These Schools Are Beating the Odds in Teaching Kids to Read
Gen Z Increasingly Skeptical of — And Angry About — Artificial Intelligence
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K-12 Telehealth Provider Faces Uncertain Future as Funding Dries Up

Hazel Health, which once described itself as “the largest K-12 mental and physical health provider in the nation,” faces an uncertain future after enduring two rounds of layoffs since last fall and the loss of several lucrative contracts with school districts. In February, the telehealth company let go of 135 staff members, including clinicians who...
By Linda Jacobson | April 16, 2026
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L.A. District Reaches Tentative Agreements With 3 Unions, Avoids Historic Strike

Class is in session for roughly 400,000 Los Angeles Unified students after a historic three-union strike involving 70,000 teachers, administrators and school support staff was averted early Tuesday morning. The Los Angeles Unified School District and Service Employees International Union Local 99 reached a tentative agreement around 2 a.m. Tuesday Pacific Time. United Teachers Los...
By Lauren Wagner | April 15, 2026
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Two New Reports Urge ‘Human-Centered’ School AI Adoption

Two new reports caution that if schools make missteps implementing AI, the results could haunt them for years, locking them into a future largely written by big tech instead of those closest to kids. The reports, both the results of small, intensive gatherings of educators, policymakers, researchers, tech officials and students last year, share a...
By Greg Toppo | April 9, 2026
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State Finds CA District Failed to Handle Sex Abuse Allegations

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A Southern California school district agreed to sweeping reforms Friday in settling a state attorney general investigation into how it handled allegations staff sexually abused students. The wide-ranging stipulated judgment with the El Monte Union High School District draws to a close an...
By Matt Drange, CalMatters | April 8, 2026
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For Children Whose Parents Are Detained or Deported, a Scramble for Safe Harbors

Children whose caretakers are detained or deported face not only the loss of their loved ones, but, oftentimes, removal from their homes and schools — abrupt upheavals that can land them in one of many places. Some, freshly pressed passports in hand, end up in their parents’ country of origin — even when it’s not...
By Jo Napolitano | April 7, 2026
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ICE Raids Caused Enrollment to Drop. Now Districts Are Paying the Price

Community members packed a high school auditorium in Chelsea, Massachusetts, last month to oppose the school board’s plan to cut 70 positions, including reading coaches, special education staff and counselors. “These support systems are what students really rely on,” one girl told the board. “As someone who struggles a lot with being overwhelmed and anxious,...
By Linda Jacobson | April 2, 2026