LA School Report

Low performing schools are twice as likely to have lost substantial numbers of students – with nearly 500 losing 20% or more since the pandemic, marking them potential candidates for closures, a new national report has revealed. Analysis released yesterday by the Fordham Institute put forth a list of close to 500 strained schools as...

As a district-wide cell phone ban is set to go into effect early next year, some Los Angeles Unified schools already have a no phone policy — but it’s hardly ever enforced, students at one school said. At Panorama High School & Magnets, students follow the district’s current cell phone policy which allows electronic devices...

All of the conditions that have bedeviled students’ post-COVID learning recovery — high rates of absenteeism, school staffing shortages, academic setbacks and disruptions — have been worse for English learners and students with disabilities, according to the latest State of the American Student report. “The thing that really struck us as we looked across all of the...

Ever since my senior year of high school in the suburban San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles, I have tutored students ranging from elementary to high school.  I have always enjoyed working with students and felt it is a way to give back to the community.  When I enrolled at the University of Southern California...

For months, Wendy Rodas felt disempowered and silenced whenever she tried to reach out to her daughter’s Missouri elementary school. The El Salvadorian mother of three, who primarily speaks Spanish, struggled to communicate with teachers, administrators and district leaders. She made repeated requests for the interpretation services that she — and all public school parents who...

Ten Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) community schools will be given an opportunity to pilot new approaches to assessments in the 2025-26 academic year.  And once the schools adopt alternative assessments, they won’t have to participate in standardized tests, other than those mandated by state and federal governments, the district school board decided in...

A new report has found a continuing trend of students leaving four-year colleges compared to two-year programs — with experts pointing to a successful advising model in helping to increase community college retention. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found by the start of the 2022-23 academic year the number of students who left their...

Los Angeles Unified teachers,  parents and students expressed support for the district’s upcoming cell phone ban — but with some concerns about the details.  The new policy, set to roll out in January, is being created in response to a school board resolution.    Studies show the unregulated use of phones on campus can harm students’...

Early next year the Los Angeles Unified School District will become one of the largest school districts in the country to ban cell phones on campus.  Superintendent Alberto Carvalho will roll out a district-wide smartphone ban after the LAUSD school board passed a resolution calling for the prohibition.   School board members expressed concerns over the...

The education technology company behind Los Angeles schools’ failed $6 million foray into artificial intelligence was in a Delaware bankruptcy court Tuesday seeking relief from its creditors and to sell off its meager assets before shutting down entirely. The latest chapter in AllHere’s dizzying collapse revealed more information about the once-lauded company’s finances and its...