Make it not one, but two extraordinarily unenthusiastic endorsements from a major Los Angeles newspaper for LA Unified board President Richard Vladovic. Following the Los Angeles Times tepid endorsement of Vladovic over his challenger, Lydia Gutierrez, the Los Angeles Daily News today also picked Vladovic over Gutierrez with an equally unenthusiastic thumbs up. Vladovic has a...

The release of an audit of a charter school co-founded by school board candidate Ref Rodriguez is heating up the waters of the already boiling LA Unified District 5 school board race. One day after reports emerged that a school board member, Monica Garcia, tried to delay the release of the audit, conducted by the district’s Office...

$25-50m in anti-truancy funding likely The legislation sailed through its first hearing Wednesday and now goes to the Appropriations Committee for passage to the Senate floor. SI&A Cabinet Report Judge to give new sentences in Atlanta cheating trial Three of the highest-ranking educators convicted in the Atlanta Public Schools test-cheating trial will get new sentences...

While teachers have been celebrating a new contract deal that will lead to a 10.4 percent salary increase over two years, most LA Unified athletic coaches are still waiting for their first raise since 1999. District officials at a Curriculum and Instruction Committee meeting yesterday estimated that 58 percent of school team coaches — the...

*UPDATED Among the 609 LA Unified employees who received layoff notices last month were hundreds of adult eduction teachers. But the LA teachers union, UTLA, still has a thing to two to say about it. Just two days after protesting the cuts, UTLA leaders today held a press conference this morning outside of the East LA Skills...

By Howard Blume | Los Angeles Times An audit of a charter school co-founded by a Board of Education candidate has been withheld from public release at the request of a school board member, L.A. Unified district officials have confirmed. Two well-placed district sources said that the release of the audit was delayed at the request...

Man sentenced to prison for theft of thousands of textbooks Corey Frederick was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison and ordered to repay $793,306 to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Santa Cruz Sentinel School boards and administrators oppose teacher evaluation bills A fundamental disagreement over granting teachers the power to negotiate...

LA Unified graduation rates are up for the fourth straight year according to new data released today by the California Department of Education, but they still fall far short of statewide rates. The percentage of local students in the Class of 2014, who earned a diploma in four years reached 70.4 percent, up two percent over...

More than 3,000 government, business, science, tech and and philanthropy leaders have been gathering in Los Angeles over the past few days for the annual Milken Institute Global Conference. The conference mission is to find answers to some of the world’s biggest problems, and one of the major topics under discussion this year is education....

Harris Newmark High School near downtown LA is celebrating today after being named a Model Continuation High School by the California Department of Education. The event scheduled for 11:30 included a keynote address from LA Unified school board member Monica Garcia. A total of 29 schools received the honor from the state this year, and Harris Newmark...