LA School Report

700 days. That’s about how long it’s been since more than half the nation’s schools crossed into the pandemic era. On March 16, 2020, Los Angles Unified and other districts across 27 states, encompassing almost 80,000 schools, closed their doors for the first long educational lockdown. Within nine days, the nation’s remaining districts followed suit. Since...

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.    The Los Angeles Unified Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution last week to study the district’s hiring and retention of Black educators aimed at improving staff...

The Los Angeles Unified School District is not only the nation’s second largest school system. It is also one of the most unique with a student body that is 73 percent Latino. The district is in the news a lot, having just hired a high-profile Superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, who stepped into his new office on...

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. The percentage of Black and Latino students in Los Angeles schools completing courses that make them eligible to attend California’s state universities plunged in 2020, according to a report released Friday. Before the pandemic, almost two-thirds of Latino and more than half of Black graduates from the Los Angeles...

Significant bias has contributed to lower classroom observation scores for thousands of teachers in Tennessee over the last decade, a study published in late December found. Even when controlling for differences in professional qualification and student testing performance, male and African American teachers were rated lower than their female and white colleagues. The paper is one...

Child care centers in which children wear masks are less likely than others to shut down because of COVID-19 outbreaks, according to what’s believed to be the first large-scale, year-long study of child masking in the U.S. Conducted by researchers at Yale University, the study — involving more than 6,600 center- and home-based child care...

Updated This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will welcome Alberto Carvalho as the next superintendent of schools on February 14. As he begins running the nation’s second-largest school system after leading the Miami-Dade public schools...

During the two years that COVID-19 has upended school for millions of families, education leaders have increasingly touted one tool as a means of compensating for lost learning: personalized tutors. As a growing number of state and federal authorities pledge to make high-quality tutoring available to struggling students, a new study demonstrates positive, if modest, results from...

Children under 5 years old may be eligible for coronavirus shots as soon as the end of February — much earlier than previously expected. On Tuesday, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that they requested the Food and Drug Administration authorize a two-dose regimen of their vaccine for children under 5. Meanwhile, the companies will continue to research the...

When I first saw West Side Story, one moment brought me back to my high school principal’s office. The Jets were singing, “We ain’t no delinquents, we’re misunderstood. Deep down inside us there is good!” I could have said the same thing when my principal was suspending me for truancy. He told me I would never...