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Lydia Gutierrez has picked up the endorsement of an Evangelical Christian group in her race against board President Richard Vladovic and another challenger in the LA Unified District 7 school board campaign. Election Forum, a California-based group that urges people to “vote for, not against, their Biblical values,” has made her the only candidate in...

Via The Hechinger Report | By Jill Barshay Stanford University’s Jo Boaler says teachers and parents should stop using math flash cards, stop drilling kids in addition and multiplication and especially stop forcing students to do calculations quickly under time pressure. Good-bye Mad Minute Mondays, where teachers hand out quiz sheets with 50 problems to be completed in...

* UPDATED A scheduling conflict is depriving another candidate forum of an incumbent LA Unified board member. A Feb. 17 event sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles may include only a short appearance by Tamar Galatzan, who is seeking a third term as the Valley-based District 3 representative. Her office said...

LAUSD school board, District Five seat up for grabs Four of seven LAUSD board members are up for election next month. We hear from 5th District incumbent Bennett Kayser and his challengers. KCRW Military instructors can join PE State officials announced on Monday adoption of new regulations allowing physical education to be taught by military...

A federal judge in California has dismissed lawsuits brought by LA Unified against three major banks that the district accused of racial discrimination in mortgage lending, leading to a loss of millions in tax revenue for the district. The lawsuits, which had been brought against banking giants — Wells Fargo, JP Morgan and Citigroup —...

For what they’re worth, here are the endorsements in the three contested LA Unified board races. The election is March 3 although early ballots are already out. Previous posts: LAT endorses only 2 incumbents for LA Unified school board; Principals’ union endorses Schmerelson, and 3 incumbents; Teachers union fails again to recommend endorsing Vladovic; SEIU 99 endorses all incumbents in 2015 LAUSD...

This is the next in a series of profiles on candidates running in the March 3 primary for the LA Unified school board. Today’s focus is Andrew Thomas, a candidate for the District 5 seat. When Andrew Thomas’s two children started at John Marshall High School in Los Feliz, the 49-year-old dad was disappointed in...

* UPDATED Why put off until tomorrow . . .well, you get the idea. In the case of the LA Unified school board, the answer is that sometimes you don’t have the votes. Which is exactly what happened last month on a resolution to allow district lawyers to work pro-bono on student deportation cases through...

The candidates in the first — and what looks like only — LA Unified board District 7 debate played it safe and respectful at the Granada Theater in Wilmington on Friday night. While differences did emerge between incumbent board President Richard Vladovic and his challengers, Lydia Gutierrez and Euna Anderson, the candidates refrained from criticizing the...

Franklin, Granada Hills tie for first in academic Super Quiz Granada Hills Charter High School and Franklin High tied for first place in the Super Quiz portion of LA Unified’s annual Academic Decathlon. Los Angeles Times Schools help families enroll in Covered California, Medi-Cal With huge numbers of California children still uninsured, schools helping families...