LA School Report

From L.A. Unified teacher to superintendent: Who is the real Michelle King? There’s not much recent public evidence by which to evaluate King’s suitability for one of the most important positions in education. Los Angeles Times, by Howard Blume Plaintiff in lawsuit updates costs of inadequate funding The school boards association argues in a new...

It appears that the LA Unified school board is headed for a showdown with the giant chicken industry. As the second largest school district in the nation, LA Unified has traditionally been one of the largest purchasers of chicken in the country but in late 2014 adopted much stricter guidelines for the food it buys....

A delegation of educators from Beijing spent much of today visiting an Alliance College-Ready Public School to find out what they could incorporate into their curriculums. Members of the delegation seemed delighted in the idea of having a computer device for every student, which they don’t yet have in China. But, they were perplexed about...

By Alisha Kirby Approximately 44,000 school aged children in California will no longer be living in households considered low-income, according to the latest U.S. Census data, reflecting a positive shift since the recession ended nearly six years ago. While the number may seem impressive, the percentage decrease among children age five to 17 living in...

Lincoln Heights Teen 1 of Only 12 to get perfect AP Calculus exam score Cedrick Argueta also earned perfect scores on the English and math sections of the ACT college-entrance exam, the district said. KTLA, by Kennedy Ryan and Kimberly Cheng Commentary: The Oracle Jerry Brown Weighs in on Prop 30 extension California awaits the...

Some of LAUSD’s cafeteria freezers are more than three decades old. Some of the stoves in the kitchens don’t work anymore. The board has approved spending up to $856,635 to survey 477 public school cafeterias to see what needs to be upgraded, fixed or replaced. “Many of our kitchens are aged and have walk-in refrigerators...

A plan to improve Information Technology at LA Unified is close to getting every school wireless internet access and providing every student access to a computer. It’s a slower, more methodical strategy than the approach taken by former Superintendent John Deasy, which led to the botched $1.3 billion iPad program, an FBI investigation, his resignation and an abrupt end to the...

By Latosha Renee Guy “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eye of others…one ever feels his twoness—A teacher, and a teacher leader: two souls, two thoughts, two sometimes conflicting ideals in one body.” — The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois Driving home...

By Juliet A. Williams In her first days on the job, L.A. Unified’s new superintendent, Michelle King, suggested that single-sex education might attract more families to the district and improve student achievement. She wouldn’t be the first district leader to vest hope — not to mention public funds — in all-boys and all-girls schools. But LAUSD...

Waiver states could learn from CA’s CORE on ESSA Building and implementing a new accountability system is perhaps the most challenging mandate imposed on the states by ESSA. Cabinet Report, by Kimberly Beltran State to reimburse costs related to Common Core tests School districts in California may get a new influx of money to reimburse...