In 10 years, you see a lot. You see students enter kindergarten and grow into young adults ready to step into the world. You see educators develop their craft, take on new challenges and at times struggle under growing demands. You see communities change — economically, culturally, emotionally. And if you are paying attention, you...

This story was originally published on LAist. When Eduardo Mira started his senior year at Ánimo Pat Brown Charter High School, he thought politics was a “fool’s game.” “All I saw from the media was just negativity and division and, like, political violence,” Mira said. “Nothing good, but now I do see the beauty in...

This article was originally published on CalMatters and was republished under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. The primary for the state’s top K-12 schools job is in less than a month, but judging from the polls, it’s debatable whether anyone is paying attention. A whopping 32% of voters are undecided with just a few weeks...

At LA’s BEST, we believe in this city. We believe in its people, its resilience and its capacity to do right by every Angeleno, including its youngest ones. And we believe that when the City of Los Angeles and its community partners work together, extraordinary things happen. Then-Mayor Tom Bradley, in a move both practical...

This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. State leaders’ recent attention to early literacy has led to funding and new programs to help close the literacy achievement gap. But math? The state hasn’t focused on it. And that neglect shows. State and national scores reflect many of California’s systemic weaknesses,...

Our country has long been committed to maintaining schools as safe spaces for children to learn. Until now. Decades of presidential administrations representing both parties have stood behind policies that kept immigration enforcement out of schools, except in extreme and unusual circumstances. The rules were designed so immigration officers could do their jobs without putting...

This story was originally published on EdSource. When Tania Rivera’s son with autism ran out of school and into the street, no one noticed he was gone. Not the teacher or any school official. Rivera said she found out from another parent who saw him.  “It wasn’t safe for him, and I was in shock....

For the first time in its history, the Los Angeles Unified School District reports that in 2025, 100% of American Indian seniors graduated from high school. That is a milestone. It deserves to be acknowledged, honored, and protected. But numbers, especially small ones, require us to look more closely. There were 23 American Indian seniors...

This article was co-published with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics, policy and power. Subscribe to The Amendment newsletter, which focuses on the complicated expansion of our democracy in the lead-up to our country’s 250th anniversary. Among longtime history teacher Karalee Wong Nakatsuka’s most prized possessions are two nearly identical T-shirts with very different...

This story was originally published by Edsource The Los Angeles Unified School District is looking to focus on teacher-led, high-dosage tutoring to meet the requirements of a settlement that requires LAUSD to provide 10 million hours of tutoring to 100,000 students over three years.  Shaw et al. v. LAUSD et al. was filed during the...