With just over a week to go before the primary election, outside spending in the LA Unified school board race has topped $4 million with pro-charter and education reform groups making up more than half that total, while an unknown amount has been spent by UTLA on a public relations campaign in support of board...

It took a devastating World War and the threat of domination by an expansionist Communist empire to propel the government of the United States past its prejudices. It was in 1943 — when the country desperately needed every competent mathematician it could find — that Dorothy Vaughan, a black female math teacher in Virginia, went...

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos briefly defended the Trump administration’s decision this week to rescind protections for transgender students in remarks to a supportive conservative crowd Thursday. “This issue was a very huge example of the Obama administration’s overreach to suggest a one-size-fits-all approach … to issues that are best dealt with and solved from a...

Questions about Celerity Educational Group, a Los Angeles charter school management organization now under federal investigation, and its relationship with affiliated nonprofit entities have been probed by LA Unified for nearly a decade, according to public documents and school board meetings, and the concerns are widely thought to have prompted last month’s highly publicized raids by seven federal...

A federal grand jury inquiry into LA Unified’s purchase of iPads has ended, officials said Tuesday. No charges were filed. “We have received notification from the U.S. Attorney’s Office that the investigation has been closed,” LA Unified’s General Counsel David Holmquist said in a statement. It has been more than two years since the school...

Nearly 1,600 LA Unified administrators will be notified in mid-March that their contracts may end in June. But is this attempt at bringing administrative staff more in line with the declining number of students too late to help a looming budget deficit, as some school board members fear? Or will there even be a staff reduction?...

When Hrag Hamalian opened Valor Academy Middle School in 2009, teacher retention was his foremost concern, so he decided to find out what educators desired in the workplace. Now executive director of Bright Star Schools, which includes six other charter schools, Hamalian surveyed his highly effective teachers in search of the answer. He found that...

LA School Report covers the 2017 LAUSD school board race: See all 13 candidate profiles Name: Gregory Martayan Board district: 4 Age: 33 Job: owns a public relations and local affairs firm Lives in: Encino Married: wife Sylva Children: three under age 2 LAUSD education?: No LAUSD. St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal school in...