California’s dwindling teacher supply rattling districts’ nerves In a common sign of the emerging problem, districts throughout the state have been hiring more teachers with provisional intern credentials. Ed Source County offices gain extra month to review LCAPs The effect will be to ease some of the pressure on the counties to review districts’ local...

The LA Unified investigation of popular teacher Rafe Esquith is now focusing on the nonprofit theater group he founded in 1989, The Hobart Shakespeareans. “It looks like the bizarre accusations of abuse have been forgotten, and now they’re moving on a request to see 15 years of financial records for the Shakespearean group,” said Ben...

UTLA, the LA Unified teachers union, has been operating at a deficit for seven of the last 10 years, the union’s treasurer, Arlene Inouye, wrote in the group’s May newsletter. She said union officials approved deficit budgets for three years during the past decade, but when actual expenses were applied, the union overspent in four additional years since 2006,...

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) came out swinging, and swinging hard, when it endorsed Hillary Clinton for president over the weekend. It was the first major union to endorse any candidate in either party, and the timing of the news seemed to come “at an opportune moment for Mrs. Clinton” just as she is...

By The Editorial Board It’s time once again for solidarity on the Los Angeles Unified school board, at least in the eyes of its members. This happens every two years, when newly elected members are seated. After bruising campaigns, they all metaphorically join hands and vow to work together in unity. Meh. Board members don’t...

5 questions on education law overhaul The GOP-controlled Congress is hoping to enact a six-year renewal of the measure that would include changes to education policy. USA Today Is there a kinder, gentler way to get anti-vaxxers to see the light? Some of the first people to notice the anti-vaccination phenomenon in California were Santa...

High-profile attorney Mark Geragos has notified LAUSD that he intends to file a class action lawsuit about the so-called “teacher jails” that could involve hundreds–and potentially thousands–of past and present teachers. The required notice for the class action lawsuit was stamped and received by the school board on June 22, and 45 days from that...

*UPDATE A burglary near an LA Unified school lead to a police chase today, with another school being put on lockdown as the result of a search for the suspects. Los Angeles school police notified the LAPD around 5:04 a.m. that multiple suspects were trying to burglarize Joseph Pomeroy Widney High School at 2302 Gramercy Place,...

By Laura Moser This week marks the closest Congress has come to replacing the widely reviled No Child Left Behind Act since it officially expired in 2007. Democrats and Republicans are squabbling over the usual issues: high-stakes testing and whether kids should be able to opt out of it; how accountable teachers and schools should be...

Has LAUSD’s approach to teacher discipline gone too far? In the wake of the Miramonte child abuse scandal, the Los Angeles school district took unprecedented steps to better protect students. Los Angeles Times Why LAUSD wants exemption from low-bidder law Supporters of Assembly Bill 1185 say it will save money by letting the district pick...