LA School Report

ICYMI — that is, in case you missed the Republican presidential candidates talking about education last night: Well, you had to listen carefully because education didn’t get much attention. Only three candidates had anything to say about education — mostly because they weren’t asked about it — and only the two from Florida, prompted by the...

By Silpa Kovvali The summer before my senior year of high school, I went on a family vacation to India that was, in and of itself, an education. I had, of course, a connection to the land my mom and dad called home for half their lives, and had been on a handful of trips...

Bodycams beginning to percolate in two schools Two school districts are adopting the use of body cameras this fall to record interactions. The Journal Local year-round schools nearly extinct Once common in the Inland area, the schedule has all but disappeared as enrollment has slowed in recent years. The Press-Enterprise CSBA calls on high court...

With a hearing now scheduled for Aug. 21, LA Unified’s teachers union, UTLA, will have the chance to argue before a neutral party that Alliance College-Ready Public Charter Schools, violated state education law by blocking the union’s efforts to bring Alliance teachers into its membership. The union’s accusations are detailed in two complaints (here and...

*UPDATE Carl A. Cohn, a longtime educational leader in California, was named today to be the first director of the California Collaborative on Educational Excellence (CCEE), a newly-formed state agency charged with providing advice and assistance to school districts in achieving the goals set forth in the Local Control and Accountability Plans. Cohn has a distinguished...

Five national organizations this week released a first-of-its kind guidebook for school districts on how to navigate common issues that arise with educating transgender students. The report, “Schools In Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 Schools,” offers advice and best practices on a wide range of issues districts often face, such as bathroom...

It’s Kumbaya time again for the LA Unified school board. In addition to their next regularly-schedule meeting, Tuesday, Sept. 1, board members are gathering for a “retreat” two days earlier, at a still-to-be-determined time and place on Sunday, Aug. 30. It’s the first such meeting since Superintendent Ramon Cortines returned nearly a year ago, and...

By Zahira Torres California’s labor oversight board has issued a complaint alleging that the largest charter school organization in Los Angeles interfered with the right of its teachers to unionize. The complaint filed by attorneys with the Public Employment Relations Board alleges that charter school leaders violated state laws by denying pro-union organizers access to...

Libraries reach out to day care homes to help improve quality The outreach is a small but innovative part of a statewide effort to improve the quality of day care centers. EdSource Former L.A. teacher pleads no contest to child abuse against student Thelmo Garcia, 37, was ordered to complete 52 weeks of child abuse...

About 50 students and activists disrupted the LA Unified school board meeting on July 30 in a protest over the district police force’s having dozens of M-16 rifles from the federal government’s controversial 1033 Program. While LA School Report was at the meeting and covered the protest, the general public was unable to see what occurred...