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Rosen: To build a pipeline of workers for the economy of the future, high school students need CTE training in green jobs. Federal funding can help

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. The movement to green the American economy is gaining momentum. At the federal level, as well as in places like Illinois, Maine and New York City, lawmakers have passed legislation designed to reduce carbon emissions while creating green jobs in diverse industries such as transportation, construction, environmental management and agriculture. These have...
By Rachel Rosen | March 2, 2022
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Meet the LAUSD school board candidates: Miguel Ángel Segura is running for ‘better outcomes’ for students

This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. This profile is part of “Meet the LAUSD school board candidates,” a series focusing on the candidates running for three open seats on the seven-member school board. LAUSD is the largest school district in the country...
By Destiny Torres and Veronica Sierra | March 1, 2022
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Meet the LAUSD school board candidates: Maria Brenes is running ‘to develop policy and an LAUSD budget rooted in racial justice’

This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. This profile is part of “Meet the LAUSD school board candidates,” a series focusing on the candidates running for three open seats on the seven-member school board. LAUSD is the largest school district in the country...
By Destiny Torres and Veronica Sierra | March 1, 2022
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Meet the LAUSD school board candidates: Marvin A. Rodríguez is running for ‘a new vision for our public schools’

This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. This profile is part of “Meet the LAUSD school board candidates,” a series focusing on the candidates running for three open seats on the seven-member school board. LAUSD is the largest school district in the country...
By Destiny Torres and Veronica Sierra | March 1, 2022
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Q&A: Why small business owner J. Benjamin Johnson considered running for LAUSD’s school board

This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. J. Benjamin Johnson was disqualified from the race for not submitting any signatures, according to a spokesperson in the Los Angeles city clerk’s office. Our prior interview can be found below in full. Name: J. Benjamin Johnson...
By Destiny Torres and Veronica Sierra | March 1, 2022
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Meet the LAUSD school board candidates: Erica Vilardi-Espinosa is running ‘to make sure all LAUSD schools are doing everything to ensure our children are prepared for the future’

This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. This profile is part of “Meet the LAUSD school board candidates,” a series focusing on the candidates running for three open seats on the seven-member school board. LAUSD is the largest school district in the country...
By Destiny Torres and Veronica Sierra | March 1, 2022
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Analysis: Pandemic pods were everywhere — until they weren’t. Here’s what their popularity means for the future of education

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Holly Daniels’ third grade son and second-grade daughter could be found in the backyard building a treehouse. After spending the morning completing school assignments remotely with help from a hired instructor, they would join a handful of other kids in...
By Jennifer Poon, Travis Pillow and Ashley Jochim | February 28, 2022
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We need Black teachers and the breakout hit sitcom ‘Abbott Elementary’ shows us why

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. At a critical time when the U.S. education sector is facing high teacher attrition rates fueled by the pandemic and a stream of legislative restrictions around classroom content and teaching methods, the new and much-loved Abbott Elementary tells a more nuanced story of how a group of passionate, tenacious...
By Mimi Woldeyohannes | February 24, 2022
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New Research: Students in majority-Black schools had been 9 months behind their white peers. Now, the gap is a full 12 months

Students in majority-Black schools are now a full 12 months behind those in mostly white schools, widening the achievement gap by a third, according to a new analysis by McKinsey & Co. Overall, students are four months behind in math and three in reading compared with years past, but those totals hide wide disparities. At the same...
By Beth Hawkins | February 23, 2022
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‘The system is working for some and not for others’: Los Angeles advocates, educators offer solutions to reverse decline in college readiness among Black & Latino students

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 stark decline in college readiness among LAUSD Black and Latino students brought educators and advocates together last week to discuss what to do about it. The report...
By Destiny Torres | February 22, 2022