Polls close at 8 pm tonight, and LA School Report will update the results of the three LA Unified board seat races as they come in. The first numbers, expected sometime before 9 o’clock, reflect early voting and generally serve as a strong indicator of the final outcome. Early tomorrow, we will have a full...

Gov. Jerry Brown‘s revised May budget has already received plenty of praise from school districts for showering California’s public education institutions with billions in additional funds. But the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) yesterday delivered additional sunny news estimating that revenues would be $3.2 billion more than Brown’s budget predicts. “Overall, we think the administration’s...

Lest supporters of the Common Core State Standards were feeling any tremors of vocal opponents around the country, a group of 500 business, community, education and parents groups came together on Sunday to offer their unequivocal support for the new testing regime in California. Under the banner of Children Now, a statewide advocacy group for...

By Steven Singer | Gadflyonthewallblog I was teaching my classes. I was grading assignments. I was procrastinating. I should have been working on my class rosters. My principals wanted me to calculate percentages for every student I had taught that year and submit them to the state. How long had each student been in my...

LAUSD school board, City Council race highlight today’s election Lacking a high profile race, such as a mayoral contest, the general municipal election is expected to draw less than 10 percent of registered voters. KPCC Polls open: L.A. voters to decide one council, three school races Three incumbents on the L.A. Board of Education are...

* UPDATED If Ref Rodriguez wins election tomorrow, he’s got no friend in Steve Zimmer. Rodriguez is the challenger in the race for LA Unified school board District 5 against Bennett Kayser, easily the most heated of the three board elections. A loss by Kayser could shift the ideological balance of the seven member board...