LA School Report

The LA Unified school board on Tuesday unanimously denied a renewal petition for a high-performing charter school, citing a breakdown of communication between the school and the district’s Charter Schools Division. Officials from Lashon Academy had tried to negotiate with the district around its special education policies, but the district said the charter school’s petition...

* UPDATED  The man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass shooting in recent history attended two LA Unified schools. His victims include at least six educators, including some from the Los Angeles area. Stephen Paddock, 64, who police say killed at least 59 people and injured more than 500 others on Sunday when he attacked...

An independent charter school says LA Unified charges too much for special education services and offers too little, so it wants to hold onto the option to get those services elsewhere. But because the San Fernando Valley school hasn’t indicated who will provide those services — and hasn’t promised to use LA Unified’s — it...

The LA Unified school police this week will join the national Coffee with a Cop movement, holding their first two community meet-ups on Wednesday and Thursday in the West Los Angeles area.  The new community outreach plan uses social media to get the word out about the events starting Wednesday. The unique idea of police officers sitting down with...

Many Latino immigrant families came to this country with one objective: a better education for their children. But in the newly released test scores, English learners in LA Unified posted no growth at all for the second year in a row, and Latino students had one of the lowest growth rates among all other ethnic...

In Los Angeles, the lines to renew DACA permits are getting longer as the Oct. 5 deadline approaches, according to CHIRLA, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles, which has been helping about 40 immigrants a day renew their permits for free. The usual processing cost is $495. The Trump Administration announced on Sept....

Los Angeles’ Jim Blew has been nominated to become the U.S. Department of Education’s assistant secretary for planning, evaluation, and policy development, according to a White House press release issued Thursday. Education Week reported in June that Blew was the front-runner for the position. He still needs to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Blew...

Delivering a promise of college access to their students and having high expectations led four schools authorized by LA Unified — two of them independent charter schools with more than 90 percent of their students Latino and low-income — to be selected as 2017 National Blue Ribbon Schools. The distinction, announced Thursday by the U.S...

Ever since Amazon announced it would open a second headquarters — a proposal that’s expected to generate up to 50,000 new jobs for the winning municipality — cities across the country have been rushing to show the online retail giant that their locale has the goods. Just about as quickly, journalists and data analysts have been trying to...

Just two years ago, 20th Street Elementary was considered such a failing school that the parents moved to take it over from LA Unified using a state law. But Wednesday’s release of state test scores shows the elementary school had the highest math gains of any traditional school in the district. “We have seen a...