Almost without comment Tuesday, the LA Unified school board voted unanimously to seek help from outside the district to replicate high-achieving schools. The resolution was introduced by Monica Garcia and Ref Rodriguez and asks the district staff to “seek outside support for the funding” to replicate successful school programs in areas of high need in the...

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...

LA Unified board members asked Tuesday for an in-depth analysis of a union-funded report stating that the district loses more than half a billion dollars because of independent charter schools. A response from the California Charter Schools Association, delivered after an hours-long recess while the school board met in closed session to address litigation against the district, called...

  Sylmar High School has quieted down and an assembly is planned after a lunchtime brawl disrupted the campus on Monday. The 20-minute incident involving at least 40 students was captured on cellphone video and posted on YouTube. Principal James Lee told LA School Report, “This was an incident that just snowballed, and it had to do...

These days, Washington, D.C., policymakers are focused on working through the details of implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which is replacing No Child Left Behind as the nation’s preeminent federal education legislation. The deliberations have included some conversations about how the law treats multilingual students. It’s early days to know how ESSA — and...

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...

The 2016 presidential campaign has hardly lived up to the ideal of a civil exchange of ideas facilitating a peaceful democracy. But a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center suggests that the acrimony from the campaign trail may be having a broader, negative effect on society — particularly in American schools. An online survey of...

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...

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, LA School Report spent some time recently talking with Brendan Wallace, a math teacher at Alliance Marc and Eva Stern Math and Science High School. On Thursday, Wallace was named the Teacher of the Year for Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, an organization that runs 27 charter schools in Los Angeles. (Check...

Arizona State University history professor Matt Delmont’s recent book, “Why Busing Failed,” challenges the conventional narrative around why school integration fell so short  — that segregated neighborhood schools were naturally occurring, that busing could never effectively change that — and examines the calculated backlash, including from a complicit media, that doomed desegregation before it began. Delmont and...