Inside the fight against California’s charter schools Twenty-five years after the California Charter School Act allowed public money to fund charter schools, advocates across the state are waging legal and legislative fights. Los Angeles Times, by Maureen Magee Is cleaning house the best way for schools to deal with sexual abuse? Sexual-abuse scandals often lead...

As part of demonstrations taking place at schools around LA Unified and in cities across the country, a group of roughly 100 protesters made up of parents, students, district leaders and politicians gathered outside Hamilton High School Wednesday morning to rally in support of public education. “Every day at this school I’m exposed to someone with different...

Nearly two years after the trial in Vergara v. California first began, the case is set to move forward as judges from a state appeals court hear arguments Feb. 25. The plaintiffs – nine students in five California public school districts – argue that five laws governing teacher dismissal, tenure, and “last in-first out” layoff...

Districts’ leaders anticipate higher math scores this year Statewide, scores on the Smarter Balanced math tests, administered for the first time last spring, were especially disappointing. But new curriculum, teacher training and expanded student access to technology raise hopes for this year’s scores. EdSource, by Theresa Harrington Op-Ed: LAUSD needs to reverse its neglect of...

More than 20,000 parents, students and teachers in LA Unified are expected to stage a “Walk-In” before school on Wednesday orchestrated by the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools to protest charter expansion and call for greater investment in public education. “We have coordinated this with the school district and the superintendent’s office,” said Alex Caputo-Pearl, president...

Scalia’s death likely to alter outcome in Friedrichs lawsuit The CTA will likely gain an unexpected victory, at least for now, in its legal battle to continue the right to require all teachers to pay the costs of collective bargaining. EdSource, by John Fensterwald Commentary: Teachers aren’t shocked young people now shun the profession Judging...

It was cause for celebration when 17-year-old Cedrick Argueta was one in 12 students in the entire world to ace one of the toughest college-level calculus tests. But it wasn’t just one test. Cedrick also earned perfect scores on the English and math sections of the American College Testing entrance exam. And it wasn’t just...

LA Unified’s graduation crisis is hitting every local district and nearly every large high school, from the San Fernando Valley to the South Bay, and from East LA to the Westside. Recent internal progress reports obtained by LA School Report show only 54 percent of seniors are currently on track to meet their “A through G”...

By Shirley Ford I realized there was a problem as early as elementary school. I always knew that my boys were smart – they started reading me the newspaper in the evening when they were 6 years old – but they were clearly bored and not being challenged in school. Like so many young African-American...

This week a Poway Unified School District board meeting was packed with people raising questions about student rights after a teenager who was born female and uses the boys’ locker room at Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego triggered a dispute over a state law that seeks to accommodate transgender students. Susan Landon, a...