Governor Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula increases funding for grades K-3 by about 10.4 percent, but districts could lose all that additional funding if one school exceeds the required average class size of 24 students. A new report from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office says that districts have to maintain an average class size to...

A national poll released Wednesday found that voters ranked quality early childhood education as a national priority, second only in importance to job growth. They said the U.S. should be doing more to prepare children for kindergarten. The bipartisan research team of Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research, commissioned by the early education advocacy group...

In California public education, you sometimes don’t have to pull the trigger. Parents of students at Haddon Avenue Elementary in Pacoima have ended their ‘parent trigger’ campaign to take over their school because they got what they wanted without it. “I’m very happy that this resulted in some changes at the school,” Martha Martinez, the...

When school starts on August 13, students on 47 campuses will receive back-to-school gifts: brand new iPads, courtesy of LAUSD’s $30 million first phase of its technology plan, which aims to give every student and teacher an iPad by the end of 2014. And many of the campuses are located south of the 10 freeway....

With another month passing and the first day of school just two weeks away, the No Child Left Behind waiver request from LAUSD and eight other California school districts remains unfinished. A final submission must go to the U.S. Department of Education for approval. Last week, representatives from the California Office to Reform Education, which represents the...

Thanks to LAUSD’s deal with Apple, 30,000 retina display iPads — those are the latest — will land in student hands starting next month in a $400 million deal that will dramatically change how kids learn reading and math. By next August, the district says every LA Unified student will have access to a $678...

Before her election to the LA school board in May, Monica Ratliff was virtually unknown. Now, the race to influence her is on — and all sides have entered. Ratliff, a former teacher and upset winner over Antonio Sanchez in District 6, has raised just over $30,000 since her election to help retire her campaign...

Newly minted LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, in office less than a month, has been busy tapping talent for City Hall and its agencies – but still no news yet on who he’ll hire for high-level education staff positions. While waiting, we decided to bring you a Who’s Who of all the Mayoral appointments so far....