LA School Report

A few hours on a Saturday afternoon at a Special Olympics event over 30 years ago changed the course of Teri Hayden’s life, and now it looks as if those few hours have changed the lives of hundreds of disabled student athletes at LA Unified. After several years of pitches and proposals from Hayden —...

* UPDATED The state’s two teachers unions — the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers — filed their appeal today in the landmark education case they lost last year, Vergara v. California. The lower court ruling declared unconstitutional state laws that govern teacher seniority, dismissal and layoffs. The unions called the lawsuit...

Andrew Thomas, who finished third behind Ref Rodriguez and Bennett Kayser in the District 5 school board primary election, has complained to Kayser that an invitation to a Kayser fundraiser this afternoon incorrectly says Thomas is supporting him in the May 19 runoff. An email from Kayser’s campaign circulated yesterday describes Kayser as “The choice...

By Leila Meyer | The Journal This year 91 percent of teachers used some of their own money to pay for school supplies, and 38 percent used only their own money, according to a new report from The NPD Group. The report, “Today’s Teachers: School Supply Purchasing Dynamics and Behaviors,” surveyed almost 1,000 K-12 public and...

Popular LA pre-school language program is targeted once again A popular and well-regarded preschool program in Los Angeles would be shut down over the next two years under a district proposal to cut costs. Ed Source AB 47 passes with bipartisan support out of Assembly education committee Assembly Education Committee members, advocates, superintendents, and faith...

After a year of disastrous technical issues and internet connectivity problems, LA Unified students are on track to complete the new computerized state mandated tests called Smarter Balanced, according to district officials. Cynthia Lim, executive director of the office of Data and Accountability, told LA School Report today that more than 50 percent of students have...

By Amy Julia Harris | Reveal Bible verses, calls to accept Jesus and the promise of eternal life can be heard in two disparate places in a southeastern suburb of Los Angeles: the Calvary Chapel Chino Hills megachurch and the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education. Three of the five school board members...

Make it not one, but two extraordinarily unenthusiastic endorsements from a major Los Angeles newspaper for LA Unified board President Richard Vladovic. Following the Los Angeles Times tepid endorsement of Vladovic over his challenger, Lydia Gutierrez, the Los Angeles Daily News today also picked Vladovic over Gutierrez with an equally unenthusiastic thumbs up. Vladovic has a...

The release of an audit of a charter school co-founded by school board candidate Ref Rodriguez is heating up the waters of the already boiling LA Unified District 5 school board race. One day after reports emerged that a school board member, Monica Garcia, tried to delay the release of the audit, conducted by the district’s Office...

$25-50m in anti-truancy funding likely The legislation sailed through its first hearing Wednesday and now goes to the Appropriations Committee for passage to the Senate floor. SI&A Cabinet Report Judge to give new sentences in Atlanta cheating trial Three of the highest-ranking educators convicted in the Atlanta Public Schools test-cheating trial will get new sentences...