LA School Report

*UPDATED June is graduation and budget season. If you were busy preparing for either of those, here’s a quick look at what happened this month, as reflected in some of our top stories. To make sure you get all the news, sign up for our newsletter at the bottom of our website. And don’t forget...

A judge has dismissed more complaints lodged by the local teachers union against Los Angeles’ largest charter school network. In a ruling Tuesday that covered seven allegations that Alliance College-Ready Public Schools was unlawfully preventing United Teachers Los Angeles’ efforts to organize, six were dismissed. The administrative law judge with the Public Employee Relations Board...

Despite a concerted effort to increase student attendance, the number of LA Unified students who missed 16 or more days of school in 2015-16 grew by 1 percent from the previous year, this month’s budget documents show. The increase in the number of students who were chronically absent cost the district $45 million in state...

Latino students from East Los Angeles, community activists, and immigrant youth gathered last weekend at East LA College to discuss topics on immigrant rights and youth empowerment through community news at the “How to Empower Your Community With Mobile Stories” workshop presented by the East Los Angeles College Student Equity Program, the Spanish weekly newspaper...

LA Unified’s charter school oversight division has confirmed it will look into complaints about three independent charter high schools made by a parent whose daughter attends one of the schools and who ran for school board this spring. The charter division confirmed Tuesday that staff is looking into the complaints and will report back to...

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed the state budget for the next fiscal year, which includes an additional $3 billion for K-12 education and community colleges, bringing total state spending on education to $74.5 billion for 2017-18. LA Unified is the largest school district in the state. The majority of its budget, as other public...

Even as LA Unified’s enrollment is projected to continue its downward slide next year, which means less money for the district, spending will increase compared to the previous year. The new budget for 2017-18, approved unenthusiastically last Tuesday by the LA Unified school board, includes a 6.7 percent increase in spending from the last school...

Parents who model reading at home can help their children from falling into a “summer slide” during the long break, says award-winning East LA teacher Joshua Martinez. Martinez laid out a series of tips for parents in a recent interview with LA School Report. His fourth-grade class at KIPP Raíces Academy is 100 percent Latino,...

*UPDATED Regular classes are on break for the summer, but meals are still being served at 300 LA Unified schools until July 28. The schools will offer free breakfast, lunch, and snacks to all youth ages 1 to 18. LA Unified is also partnering with the City of Los Angeles’ Department of Recreation and Parks...

An imposing South Los Angeles middle school in a dense neighborhood not far from where the LA Riots erupted 25 years ago once bustled with 2,000 students. Today only 350 students roam its hallways. Families have fled Horace Mann Middle School and its low student achievement, but LA’s largest public university thinks it can turn...