As the ed tech industry continues to expand, breaking into the game means facing stiffer competition from companies keen on occupying the same space. But as teaching, student learning, and the delivery of educational content continue to evolve, there has never been a greater opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the students....

*UPDATED LA Unified school board President Steve Zimmer will face Nick Melvoin in the runoff in May, while incumbent Mónica García easily won re-election outright on Tuesday. In the race for the open seat in the San Fernando Valley, Kelly Gonez leads Imelda Padilla going into the runoff. The District 4 contest will continue to be...

Voting is underway today for three seats on the LA Unified school board. By late afternoon, a random sample of voter turnout showed less than 8 percent of eligible voters had cast ballots countywide, according to the county Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan. Polls close at 8 p.m. At 4PM our random hourly sampling of voter turnout...

More than 100 parents, educators, and students on Monday rallied and chanted outside the Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in downtown Los Angeles to protest the arrest of a father who was taken from his family outside his daughter’s school. “We’re better than Trump, we deserve better than this, we are not...

Judging by how much is being spent, Los Angeles is about to hold the most important school board election in American history. As of Monday, candidates and their backers have poured $6.4 million into races for three seats, with most of that — about $5.4 million — coming from labor groups and deep-pocketed charter school...

The Fair Political Practices Commission will investigate spending by United Teachers Los Angeles on a public relations campaign supporting LA Unified school board President Steve Zimmer, who is running for reelection. The chief of the FPPC’s Enforcement Division notified Keith Dell’Aquila, who filed a complaint, Thursday that it will investigate the complaint, according to a...

A coalition of community activist groups concerned with education issued a report to show how California can create a simple rating for schools that all can understand. A busload of three dozen families from Los Angeles will attend a state Board of Education meeting in Sacramento on Wednesday to urge the state to keep it...

A question posed to the District 6 candidates for the LA Unified school board at a forum Wednesday night about Superintendent Michelle King’s strategic plan highlighted the differences and priorities among the contenders. High school students posed the question at a candidate forum at LA Mission College sponsored by the United Way of Greater Los...

*UPDATE The seven LA Unified school board members are often at odds — even though they come together unanimously for votes like picking the new superintendent. But they’re not in unison for any of the school board races, or even necessarily for their fellow board members’ reelection. LA School Report polled all seven of the...

This piece was produced in partnership with The 74; see profiles of all 2017 LAUSD school board candidates. By Laura Waters When I first ran on a three-person slate for my local New Jersey school board 12 years ago, I thought we’d hit the big time. Media coverage! Bellicose debates! Political intrigue! Our “Team for Change”...