By Jane Meredith Adams Vaccination rates increased across the state for kindergartners in 2015-16 as schools reacted to the news that their daily attendance figures would be scrutinized if they had high numbers of students who were only partially vaccinated, according to a summary analysis by the California Department of Public Health, which released its school-by-school immunization data on...

New laws require update of school sex ed programs If the data is accurate, many California districts have work to do to comply with two new laws that significantly alter the content and delivery of sex education. Cabinet Report, by Kimberly Beltran Federal officials urged not to step on state’s school reforms The state board...

Investigating and analyzing charter schools is becoming a greater burden for LA Unified, and the district isn’t getting any more money to do the work, according to a report presented today. “Charter-related work consumes the most amount of investigative resources due to the time-sensitive nature of the work and the monthly deadlines for board action on...

A majority of LA School Report readers responding to our latest poll voted that Michelle King was the right choice to be LA Unified’s next superintendent. King, a longtime district insider, was announced earlier this month as the next superintendent after a months-long search that included looking at some outside candidates. Fifty-three percent of those...

If members of the LA Unified school board agree on anything, it’s the financial threat posed by declining enrollment. The latest evidence: a 7-0 vote last week to oppose the Great Public Schools Now charter expansion plan. But what to do about enrollment, which is falling about three percent a year, is another matter, the difficulties...

By Sonali Kohli  If your child attends a public school, you might find yourself asking questions. Who is in charge of making sure the principal is good? Who controls contracts with food vendors so that your kids have healthy lunches? Who is responsible for acquiring textbooks? Who sets the tone on what teachers should be doing?...

Report: Schools increasingly turn to ‘underprepared’ teachers to fill vacancies The report points to numerous studies that it says have found that the use of underprepared or substitute teachers can “harm student achievement.” EdSource, by Louis Freedberg Angelenos weigh in on new LAUSD superintendent We asked Angelenos what they thought of the choice of Michelle...

If you’re at Crenshaw High School, wouldn’t you want to know that baseball legend Darryl Strawberry graduated from there? How about that “Star Wars” composer John Williams went to North Hollywood High, or that Leonardo DiCaprio dropped out of his junior year at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies so he could pursue acting?...

Acting U.S. Education Secretary: Civil rights community must be vigilant John King plans to use his first speech as acting U.S. Education Secretary to call on the civil rights community to be vigilant as the nation ushers in the ESSA. Washington Post, by Emma Brown Advocates demand state end improper use of force on special...

The California Court of Appeal, Second District has scheduled for Feb. 25 oral arguments in the landmark Vergara v. California lawsuit. The appeal decision will be closely watched throughout the state and beyond, as the future of California’s teacher employment laws surrounding tenure, seniority and dismissal hang in the balance. In 2014, Judge Rolf Treu struck down the...