Spending in race for three LAUSD board seats reaches nearly $4.6 million The results of Tuesday’s election could shift the ideological balance of the seven-member board. Los Angeles Times Teachers, tenure hauled into LAUSD election debate Teachers are at risk of losing their closest ally on the board, Bennett Kayser. KPCC State Senate OKs bill...

* UPDATED Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised budget, which directs billions more toward schools over the next few years, has brought smiles to the faces of educational leaders around the state. The overall amount includes an additional $3.1 billion for the current academic year and $2.7 billion extra for next year and could mean as much as...

*UPDATED A recent panel discussion at the Milken Institute took on the issue of digital technology in the classroom under the assumption that “traditional education, built around books and classroom activities, no longer prepares students for today’s digital world or the job market that it has created.” As LAUSD looks to reboot its digital approach in...

Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled a revised state budget this morning that directs an additional $6.1 billion toward K-through-12 education. The money is the result of higher than expected revenues that have come into the state since Brown first revealed his proposed budget in January. The added money includes $3.1 billion for the current academic year and...

It wasn’t the first time children wept in front of the LA Unified school board or told horrifying tales of being bullied in school or recalled that spark of hope ignited by a remarkable teacher. But something in the way students from Los Angeles Big Picture High School on Tuesday pleaded to save their school struck...

By Keith Sharon The bigger boys surrounded him near the bus stop at Kettler Elementary School in Huntington Beach. They screamed an anti-gay slur at him in Spanish. They sashayed as they circled him, mocking his effeminate movements. Marcos Saldivar didn’t know what the slur meant exactly. He only knew that it hurt. He was...

What to do with a $4b surplus? Schools say they come first Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to unveil his revised May budget plan today on how to use nearly $4 billion in unanticipated revenue. SI&A Cabinet Report SoCal high schools violate graduation cap and gown law Some schools are not communicating the law to...

Things are getting nasty in what had been a relatively quiet and peaceful race for the LA Unified school board seat in District 7. Candidate Lydia Gutierrez, who is challenging incumbent and board President Richard Vladovic, responded sharply to several campaign flyers circulated by the political action committee for SEIU Local 99, a union of...

With expectations of a windfall from the state when Gov. Jerry Brown announces his updated budget tomorrow, various interests in LA Unified are eager to learn if the added dollars will reach them. It’s not likely. Despite the possibility that the district’s cut of the added revenues could reach $300 million or more, Superintendent Ramon...

* UPDATED Superintendent Ramon Cortines is putting off retirement for another year. The LA Unified school board yesterday voted unanimously to extend Cortines’s contract through the end of the 2015-16 school year. Terms of the deal are still under review, “but nothing, including salary, was expected to change from the previous pact,” district officials said...