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...

While teachers have been celebrating a new contract deal that will lead to a 10.4 percent salary increase over two years, most LA Unified athletic coaches are still waiting for their first raise since 1999. District officials at a Curriculum and Instruction Committee meeting yesterday estimated that 58 percent of school team coaches — the...

*UPDATED Among the 609 LA Unified employees who received layoff notices last month were hundreds of adult eduction teachers. But the LA teachers union, UTLA, still has a thing to two to say about it. Just two days after protesting the cuts, UTLA leaders today held a press conference this morning outside of the East LA Skills...

By Howard Blume | Los Angeles Times An audit of a charter school co-founded by a Board of Education candidate has been withheld from public release at the request of a school board member, L.A. Unified district officials have confirmed. Two well-placed district sources said that the release of the audit was delayed at the request...

LA Unified graduation rates are up for the fourth straight year according to new data released today by the California Department of Education, but they still fall far short of statewide rates. The percentage of local students in the Class of 2014, who earned a diploma in four years reached 70.4 percent, up two percent over...

More than 3,000 government, business, science, tech and and philanthropy leaders have been gathering in Los Angeles over the past few days for the annual Milken Institute Global Conference. The conference mission is to find answers to some of the world’s biggest problems, and one of the major topics under discussion this year is education....

Harris Newmark High School near downtown LA is celebrating today after being named a Model Continuation High School by the California Department of Education. The event scheduled for 11:30 included a keynote address from LA Unified school board member Monica Garcia. A total of 29 schools received the honor from the state this year, and Harris Newmark...

By Annie Gilbertson | KPCC One in three Asian students is labeled as gifted by his or her school, according to data released by the Los Angeles Unified School District for a school board committee meeting scheduled today. The latest numbers again raise questions about the over- and under-representation of ethnic groups in the district’s Gifted and...

* UPDATED One week after a landmark deal that will bring LA Unified teachers a double digit salary increase, more than a hundred members of the teachers union, UTLA, protested potential district layoffs this morning before the start of hearings to challenge the cuts. The school board last month authorized 609 layoff notices that were issued to...

A California judge has denied a request for state intervention at six schools for students’ being assigned open classes that lack academic value. The same judge had ordered the state to intervene at LA Unified’s Jefferson High School in October over the same issue and as part of the same lawsuit. Bay Area Superior Court Judge...