LA School Report

Adams says LA Unified is interested in him for the top post The superintendent of the St. Louis Public Schools, is on a short list of candidates being considered to head the Los Angeles Unified School District. St. Louis Business Journal, by Diana Barr LA school district will be broke by 2020 unless drastic cuts...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Monday in a case that threatens the financial strength of teacher unions in California and 23 other states. The Friedrichs’ v. California Teachers Association lawsuit was brought by a group of California teachers seeking a dismissal from the requirement that they pay compulsory union dues....

Here’s another bit of evidence to suggest that LA Unified will have a new superintendent by next week. The agenda for a board meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 12 includes this: “Recommends approval of an employment agreement for the Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent of Schools.” That would presume that the members will have coalesced around one candidate...

By Tom Chorneau State officials won high marks for efforts to make sure all low-income children are covered by health insurance but challenges still stand when it comes to ensuring access to care and to specialized services, according to a new survey. The 2016 report card on California from Children Now estimated that during the two years...

Court of appeal finally to hear case charging underfunding of schools A state court of appeal will hear arguments in two long-delayed lawsuits charging that the state violated children’s constitutional rights by underfunding education. EdSource, by John Fensterwald Some districts exempt students in special ed from vaccination law California has not yet issued guidance on...

Months of preparation in anticipation of the El Niño storms have kept service calls to LA Unified’s facilities office to a “moderate” level, according to the school district’s director of Maintenance and Operations Roger Finstad. Yesterday, he said, his department received 423 rain-related service calls from 211 schools, and by mid-afternoon today, he received 235 calls from...

* UPDATED She gave $1 million to Palisades Charter High School for classroom renovations and building a community pool. She was LAUSD’s oldest full-time teacher when she retired at 94 and one of the oldest ever in the nation. She taught the children of Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum. And, her students...

The Ethicist, By Kwame Anthony Appiah A reader’s question: My wife and I are an interracial couple living in Oakland, Calif. We are both first-generation college graduates for whom solid public-school educations made all the difference. We are struggling with choosing a public school for our son, who will enter kindergarten this year. State test...

Late teacher Jaime Escalante among those honored with 2016 stamps High school math teacher Escalante, a Bolivian immigrant, taught at high-poverty Garfield High School in Los Angeles, building a first-class math program. Sacramento Bee, by Bill Lindelof L.A. Unified school board still struggling to name leader “This is very, very hard work, as it should...