LA School Report

March 23 Update: Raquel Zamora withdrew her candidacy for the LAUSD District #2 board seat. Our prior interview about her intent to run can be found below in full. This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.  Name: Raquel Zamora District: 2 Background/profession: Public school teacher/mental health therapist/social...

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. A generation ago, leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall advocated for quality education as a civil right for all children. A decade ago, President Barack Obama declared education “the civil rights issue of our time.” And yet, the tragic reality today for millions of...

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. As the nation’s school superintendents gathered last month for their first in-person meeting since the pandemic began, Dan Domenech, the organization’s leader, pressed U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about an urgent issue facing his members. At Music City Center in Nashville, he reminded the secretary that districts...

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. As public libraries across the nation begin handing out Covid-19 testing kits and N95 masks, librarians have become the latest frontline workers. Melanie Huggins, president of the Public Library Association, said libraries and librarians are essential to combating the virus seeing as they are vital to their...

This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.  This profile is part of “Meet the LAUSD school board candidates,” a series focusing on the candidates running for three open seats on the seven-member school board. LAUSD is the largest school district in the country...

This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.  This profile is part of “Meet the LAUSD school board candidates,” a series focusing on the candidates running for three open seats on the seven-member school board. LAUSD is the largest school district in the country...

This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.  This profile is part of “Meet the LAUSD school board candidates,” a series focusing on the candidates running for three open seats on the seven-member school board. LAUSD is the largest school district in the country...

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. President Joe Biden made history when he nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, however, she’ll likely face pressure to sit out one of the most important cases involving race and education in...

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. The first summer of the pandemic brought disappointing news to school counselor Marianne Matt. Many of the seniors who she had supported through the spring college admission process at Capital High in Madison, Wisconsin — where about three-quarters of students are Black or Hispanic, and 4 in...

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. The movement to green the American economy is gaining momentum. At the federal level, as well as in places like Illinois, Maine and New York City, lawmakers have passed legislation designed to reduce carbon emissions while creating green jobs in diverse industries such as transportation, construction, environmental management and agriculture. These have...