LA School Report

Richard Vladovic remembers the days when he was juggling his military career with teaching. “I would leave on Friday after staying to watch a school football game, jump on a plane and go to Fort Lewis, Washington, and do maneuvers in a Jeep all weekend and then come back to school by 7 in the...

The number of charter schools that will be located on multiple campuses in LA Unified next year will be down from 24 to 22, and the number of schools located on three different campuses will go from eight to four. But that’s not enough and co-located campuses continue to be disruptive to the communities and the...

Students in the Class of 2017 are on a better track toward graduation than seniors were at this time last year, according to preliminary reports released Tuesday by LA Unified. About 47 percent of the upcoming graduation class has a C or better in their required A-G course requirements. That’s compared to 43 percent at...

After flip-flopping on the school calendar a few times to try to start the school year closer to Labor Day, the LA Unified school board voted Tuesday to solidify their school calendar for at least one more year. But they’ll wait for data to approve a calendar for more years. Next year, school will start in mid-August, there’s...

Attorney General-designate Jeff Sessions maintained his opposition Tuesday to a federal program that grants temporary legal status to undocumented youth, but he repeatedly dodged questions about what to do with the hundreds of thousands of young people already enrolled in the program. Responding a question from Sen. Lindsey Graham during his confirmation hearing before the Senate...

The four candidates who are seeking a seat representing District 4 for the next five and a half years on the LA Unified school board appeared together for the first time Monday night and discussed the district’s troubled finances, teacher tenure, school choice and charter schools. The candidate forum was sponsored by Speak UP, a...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juYyaUqKDxo] Republicans in Washington will spend Wednesday charging full bore into the start of the new administration. President-elect Donald Trump is slated to give his first press conference since the election. The Senate will hold an hours-long series of votes related to repealing Obamacare. And at least three Cabinet nominees will face their confirmation...

As LA Unified students return to school on Monday, here’s a look ahead at what will be happening in education in Los Angeles in 2017. BUDGET “We are spending more money than we are taking in,” the superintendent of the nation’s second-largest school district, Michelle King, said at her first “State of the District” address...

A telephone opinion survey being conducted in LA Unified’s School Board District 4 that repeatedly links child molestation and sexual abuse cases in the district with incumbent Steve Zimmer is being roundly criticized by Zimmer and contender Nick Melvoin. Presented as a nonpartisan and unbiased poll, the survey focuses almost exclusively on Zimmer and Melvoin,...

Only one month’s worth of data is in, but if it holds true, bringing flavored milk back to the schools could offset some of LA Unified’s budget deficit. At Tuesday’s Budget, Audit and Facilities meeting — the first official LA Unified committee meeting of 2017 — new Food Services Director Joseph Vaughn discussed the preliminary numbers collected...