Continuing a stream of major academic wins for LA Unified schools, El Camino Real Charter High School this week won the 2015 national U.S. Academic Decathlon Online competition. The news follows last month’s victory by Granada Hills Charter High students in the 2015 U.S. Academic Decathlon championship. It’s the fifth year in a row that LA...

As LA Unified awaits millions more dollars from Governor Jerry Brown‘s revised budget, district officials are beginning to cobble together a spending plan for the next academic year. It’s a task that involves reinvesting in programs that were gutted in the aftermath of the Great Recession. But as advocates for many worthy causes are calling...

By Jill Stewart One of Emilio Pack’s most vivid childhood memories is that of his Cuban immigrant single mom, desperate to hold together her extended family amid the poverty and street violence that gripped their chosen new city, performing illegal dentistry in the bathroom of their crowded Elysian Park home. To young Emilio, it was...

UTLA contract fails to guarantee a single additional teacher in LAUSD LA Unified is not obligated to hire a single teacher to help ease crowded classrooms under the terms of its tentative agreement with UTLA. Los Angeles Daily News LA teacher says wi-fi makes her sick — so she wants it out of every classroom...

Candidate forum update: Well, there aren’t any. Aside from two debates in the Valley with District 3 candidates Tamar Galatzan, the incumbent, and challenger Scott Schmerelson, voters have no additional opportunities to hear from those seeking the next term on the LA Unified school board. Five charter school groups offered to sponsor debates in District...

One of the most depressing outcomes of the Los Angeles primary elections in March was that only roughly 10 percent of registered voters participated. But a group of LA Unified students connected with the United Way Student Leadership Program took the news to heart and decided to do something about it. Over the course of two...

Eighteen middle schools and high schools in LA Unified are among several hundred in the state being honored with the new Gold Ribbon Schools Awards Program for making gains in implementing the academic and performance standards set by the State Board of Education. The award, which is temporarily replacing the California Distinguished Schools Program as the state...

By Howard Blume As many as three-quarters of Los Angeles 10th-graders are at risk of being denied diplomas by graduation because they are not on track to meet rigorous new college prep class requirements. This has prompted some in the L.A. Unified School District, including Supt. Ramon C. Cortines, to suggest reconsidering the requirements, which...

Some schools still waiting for Internet connection A handful of California schools are located in areas so remote that there are no providers. SI&A Cabinet Report L.A. County supervisors OK $450,000 payment for father of slain boy A wrongful-death complaint is still pending against the Los Angeles Unified School District. Los Angeles Times One Anaheim school...

* UPDATED Two weeks from the May 19 runoff elections, outside money continues to pour in for two incumbents on the LA Unified board — Tamar Galatzan in District 3 and President Richard Vladovic in District 7. A third incumbent — Bennett Kayser in District 5 — still trails far behind his challenger, Ref Rodriguez....