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Commentary: Foster youth and homeless students need stable schools — and L.A. County has a plan to provide them
Here in L.A. County, we have students facing incredible challenges: • 38% of all children in foster care in California reside in Los Angeles County. • Only 58% of young people in foster care graduate from high school. • Nearly 10% of the homeless population in Los Angeles County is under 18. To help these students achieve and succeed, we need...
By Dr. Debra Duardo | May 24, 2019
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Antonucci: As L.A. voters weigh a parcel tax, here’s a stroll through 31 years of California school funding claims
Mike Antonucci’s Union Report appears weekly at LA School Report. In two weeks, a small percentage of those who live within the boundaries of the Los Angeles Unified School District will go to the polls to vote on Measure EE, a parcel tax designed to raise an estimated $500 million annually for the city’s schools. How will...
By Mike Antonucci | May 22, 2019
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Brown v. Board at 65: Will schools ever be integrated?
Brown v. Board of Education has been called the Supreme Court’s finest hour, and it is perhaps the most critical single event in the history of American education. In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court swept aside more than a half-century of legal segregation, paved the way for the groundbreaking civil rights legislation of the 1960s...
By Kevin Mahnken | May 22, 2019
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Bernie Sanders’s K-12 proposal would more than double the federal education budget: 6 of his top spending priorities
Following his proposal Friday to limit charter schools, Sen. Bernie Sanders over the weekend released perhaps the most substantive K-12 platform of any of the major presidential candidates. It touches nearly every area of K-12 policy, from protections for LGBT students to teacher pay to special education, but perhaps what sticks out most of all...
By Carolyn Phenicie | May 21, 2019
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Commentary: LAUSD is asking for a $500 million parcel tax. In return, let the schools decide how to spend their new funds
Many of the country’s largest school districts decentralize funding to schools (yes, schools) and let the schools — not the district — design budgets that work best for their particular mix of students. Not the Los Angeles Unified School District. LAUSD is the country’s second-largest district, yet its financials remain stubbornly centralized and widely criticized....
By Marguerite Roza and Anthony Drew | May 20, 2019
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California voter referendum to ban same-sex marriage led to increase in anti-LGBTQ bullying, study finds
Heated political debates that center on marginalized communities can lead to negative consequences for students, according to a new study that found an uptick in anti-LGBTQ bullying at California schools during a statewide push to ban same-sex marriage. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, suggests that high-profile debates involving marginalized groups can lead bullies to...
By Mark Keierleber | May 20, 2019
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California school board members to state lawmakers: Don’t make it harder to attract and recruit diverse, talented teachers
An open letter to state Assembly members, from California school board members Lorena Chavez (East Side Union High School District), Mónica García (Los Angeles Unified School District), Jumoke Hinton Hodge (Oakland Unified School District), Tom Panas (West Contra Costa Unified School District) and Cipriano Vargas (Vista Unified School District): Education is the cornerstone of our...
By Lorena Chavez, Mónica García, Jumoke Hinton Hodge, Tom Panas and Cipriano Vargas | May 15, 2019
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June’s parcel tax to fund schools takes center stage after Jackie Goldberg’s LAUSD board win
With Tuesday’s school board election delivering a decisive win for public education firebrand Jackie Goldberg, next month’s parcel tax vote is now center stage. L.A. Unified’s next election — less than three weeks away on June 4 — will ask residents within district boundaries to support Measure EE, a tax of 16 cents per square foot...
By Taylor Swaak | May 15, 2019
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Antonucci: National Education Association may lose thousands of Las Vegas members if city’s bus drivers, food service workers & custodians shift to Teamsters
Mike Antonucci’s Union Report appears weekly at LA School Report. Most of the education support employees working for the Clark County School District in Las Vegas may soon find themselves switching state and national unions. A loss for the National Education Association will turn into a gain for the Teamsters. The Education Support Employees Association is affiliated...
By Mike Antonucci | May 15, 2019
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Jackie Goldberg scores a decisive win in LAUSD’s Board District 5 race
*Updated May 15 Jackie Goldberg will rejoin L.A. Unified’s school board after a decisive win Tuesday in the Board District 5 runoff election. Goldberg, who represented the board district three decades ago, clinched 72 percent of the vote while former mayoral aide and L.A. Unified parent Heather Repenning took 28 percent, according to semi-official results announced by the...
By Taylor Swaak | May 14, 2019