LA School Report

* UPDATED LA Unified said today that one of its long-time outside lawyers, W. Keith Wyatt, would no longer represent the district in legal matters after comments he made regarding a student’s sexual relationship with her math teacher. “As a school district building and maintaining a strong sense of mutual trust with our students and their families is...

By Teresa Watanabe | Via The Los Angeles Times L.A. Unified officials are coming under fire for allowing their attorneys to argue that a 14-year-old student was mature enough to consent to sex with her middle school math teacher. The arguments were made in a civil case that was filed last year by the student,...

School groups ask to delay API scores Organizations representing school administrators and school boards say that many districts aren’t ready to appraise schools’ performance with API scores. Ed Source Universal Studios Hollywood holds 10th annual ‘Day Of Giving’ event Universal Studios played host to 250 young homeless students who were bused in from over 30...

Building on her success investigating LA Unified’s controversial iPad program, Board Member Monica Ratliff is now asking for an overall examination into how the district allocates support for legal matters as a way to find added funding for improving school safety. In two resolutions set to come before the board next Tuesday, Ratliff is calling...

The Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) has been named No. 1 in Security magazine’s rankings of the K-12 education sector for the fifth straight year. The magazine analyzed key factors such as active shooter training, asset and theft protection and cyber security in assessing the security forces around the nation’s schools. “This honor could not have...

* UPDATED The organization Parent Revolution is holding its first ever Parent Power Convention this weekend at LA Trade-Technical College. The group has backed the Public School Choice and “Parent Trigger” laws in California. “Organized parent leaders will be speaking in one voice, and outlining a common set of principals and vision for the future of...

Via The Hechinger Report | By Jonas Chartock and Ross Wiener  An abundance of recent books, research and headlines present growing evidence that our nation’s schools can and must do a better job of preparing teachers for the experiences they’ll face in the classroom. They show that if educators really knew how to address the challenges...

LAUSD argued middle schooler can consent to sex with teacher LAUSD lawyers fighting a civil lawsuit argued in court that a 14-year-old student was mature enough to consent to having sex with her 28-year-old teacher. KPCC The most common gripes about Teach for America by ranking The names and players change, but many of the...

* UPDATED As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year. “I’m not going...