This story was originally published on EdSource. With contract negotiations between the Los Angeles School District and three unions coming down to the wire, the district’s 400,000 students and their families didn’t know when they went to sleep Monday night whether there would be school Tuesday morning. In the end, school is open this week...

Hazel Health, which once described itself as “the largest K-12 mental and physical health provider in the nation,” faces an uncertain future after enduring two rounds of layoffs since last fall and the loss of several lucrative contracts with school districts. In February, the telehealth company let go of 135 staff members, including clinicians who...

Class is in session for roughly 400,000 Los Angeles Unified students after a historic three-union strike involving 70,000 teachers, administrators and school support staff was averted early Tuesday morning. The Los Angeles Unified School District and Service Employees International Union Local 99 reached a tentative agreement around 2 a.m. Tuesday Pacific Time.  United Teachers Los...

After the Eaton fire, I went to see a friend in Altadena. He told me his neighbor saw the embers and came to wake him up. That neighbor saved his life. They spent the night watering down their properties, watching the flames move through the hills. Doing what neighbors do when everything is on fire...

Two months after Donald Trump swore in Linda McMahon as secretary of education, she named “evidence-based literacy” as one of the administration’s top three priorities. Yet the White House’s 2027 budget plan proposes cutting funding for some of America’s most vulnerable students by nearly 70% — from programs that create the conditions for children to learn to read.  You cannot...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Hudson Idov wasn’t excited about any of his college options — that is, until his Los Angeles house burned down in the Palisades Fire his senior year of high school. Less than a week after graduation, he and one of his classmates enrolled...

This story was originally published on EdSource. After taking a break from social media, Orange County student Elise Choi helped write a bill that would mandate California schools teach digital wellness — a response to growing concerns about how technology is affecting students’ mental health. Assembly Bill 2071 would require California schools to include digital...

For the last nine years, we have presented an alternative Social Mobility Tournament bracket that plots the colleges invited to the men’s NCAA Division I basketball tournament by how well they help place their graduates on the path to upward mobility. Now, for the third time, we are pleased to do the same for the...

Two new reports caution that if schools make missteps implementing AI, the results could haunt them for years, locking them into a future largely written by big tech instead of those closest to kids. The reports, both the results of small, intensive gatherings of educators, policymakers, researchers, tech officials and students last year, share a...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A Southern California school district agreed to sweeping reforms Friday in settling a state attorney general investigation into how it handled allegations staff sexually abused students.    The wide-ranging stipulated judgment with the El Monte Union High School District draws to a close an...