LA School Report

Legislators challenge Sacramento to tackle teacher shortage Three California lawmakers have introduced a package of bills designed to attract new teachers to the profession. EdSource, by Louis Freedberg and John Fensterwald As California faces a dire teacher shortage, should other states worry too? A new report suggests that California should expand routes to the classroom...

Students explain how Linked Learning works at LAUSD schools

2016 is off to a swift — and inspiring — start. Schools across the country were bursting with inspiring headlines in January, from the Texas neighbors who moved an entire school in a week after it was destroyed by a Christmas tornado to the math teacher who made it possible for a colorblind sophomore to see...

A targeted effort by the Obama administration as the new year opened to remove undocumented families with children has prompted renewed protests from educators and fears in immigrant communities, particularly in Southern California. Nearly 300 educators nationwide, some lawmakers and the country’s largest teachers unions are condemning the stepped-up enforcement actions that occurred in several...

CA schools freed from costly after-school tutoring mandate California joined more than 40 states granted a waiver by the US Department of Education from sanctions established under No Child Left Behind. KPCC, by Annie Gilbertson Results due from new rating system for 6 school districts The CORE districts in the state, including LAUSD, received a waiver...

The high winds and rains over the weekend caused power outages at four LA Unified campuses, and a tree fell in the middle of another school. None of the schools closed nor did any report damage, according to an LAUSD spokesperson. Power generators at the school sites were working, and even though neighborhoods in the area...

Two and a half years ago, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa left his office steering the nation’s second-largest city with a legacy of pushing the kind of changes in the school system that education reformers relish. Trying to make good on a campaign promise to fix the city’s schools, he fought the teachers union in...

Founder of LA School Report, Jamie Alter Lynton announces a partnership with education news site, The 74 Million

LA School Report didn’t exist when I was an editor at the Los Angeles Times, but I wish it had. Jamie Lynton launched this site three and a half years ago. Since then, most recently as city editor at the Los Angeles Daily News, I found myself turning often to LA School Report for its...

The 74 and LA School Report – two rapidly growing education news sites – will partner to expand coverage of education in Los Angeles and America’s second-largest school district, the founders of the sites announced today. In less than four years, LA School Report has become a must-read for insiders and everyday Angelenos alike. The...