Donna Muncey, an aide to John Deasy in three different school districts, is leaving LA Unified to work under Tommy Chang, who served as a regional superintendent in LA Unified until his recent appointment as Superintendent of Boston Public Schools. Muncey was Chief of Intensive Support and Intervention under Deasy before his successor, Ramon Cortines,...

After the Los Angeles Police Department flooded Venice High School on Friday, arresting eight boys there and two more off campus, LA Unified again found itself the subject of some seriously negative headlines. National and international media organizations like People, The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian and even Sputnik International — an official news agency of...

By Stephanie Simon | Politico Education reformers stymied by teachers unions and liberal state legislatures increasingly are turning to the courts to get their way on everything from funding charter schools to making it easier to fire teachers. It’s an end-run strategy championed by Republican and Democratic reformers alike: When they find it hard to...

The Vergara case is moving back into public view with appeal briefs from the defendants, who lost, due before a three-judge panel on March 30. Once the papers from the state and the two teachers unions, California Federation of Teachers and California Teachers Association, have been filed, lawyers for the plaintiffs have 40 days to...

L.A. teachers launch union drive at Alliance charter schools Teachers at the largest charter school organization in LA have launched a drive to unionize. Los Angeles Times School reserve cap could harm long-term capital projects Sources said last week that school administrator and finance groups, seeking a repeal of the reserve cap, have met with...

The food fight over Breakfast in the Classroom rages on as another LA Unified school is attempting to kill the program before it gets started. A group of parents at Paul Revere Charter Middle School in Santa Monica is petitioning the district for a waiver from the morning meal program next year, claiming that it’s...

Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department descended on Venice High School this morning and arrested eight juvenile male students for allegedly sexually assaulting two female students, according to media reports. A ninth student was arrested off campus, and at least five other students are also being sought by police. At a press conference, LAPD Cmdr....

By Diane Ravitch | Ed Source Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s commentary for EdSource last month, called “How Not to Fix No Child Left Behind,” consisted for the most part of mushy platitudes that must be measured against the realities of his actions over the past six years. During that time, Duncan has aggregated an...