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Profiles: Los Angeles school board candidates discuss ideas
Today we present “Meet the LAUSD School Board Candidates,” profiles of the candidates running for three open seats on the seven-member Los Angeles school board in the June 7 primary. If elected, candidates for LAUSD school board — representing the largest school district in the country with an elected board — will confront complex issues...
By LA School Report | May 24, 2022
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Meet the LAUSD school board candidates: Tracey Schroeder running as ‘front line … educator’
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, Veronica Sierra, and Rebecca Katz | May 24, 2022
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Meet the LAUSD school board candidates: Miho Murai is running as ‘a powerful voice for English Learners, students with disabilities, students in foster care and juvenile justice, unhoused students, and the Asian Pacific American community’
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, Veronica Sierra, and Rebecca Katz | May 24, 2022
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As absenteeism skyrockets, schools get creative about luring back lost students
BUENA PARK, Calif. — Sliding off their backpacks as they come through the front door of the local Boys and Girls Club, a group of students grab pool cues. Outside, children laugh as they bat around a beach ball on the lawn. But the upbeat mood belies the more serious reason that brings many of...
By Linda Jacobson | May 23, 2022
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Leader’s view: Why I stepped down from the Oakland Unified School District Board
A version of this essay appeared on the GonzalesforSchools blog. On May 2, I announced that I will be stepping down early from my role on the Oakland Unified School District board. In many ways, I’m proud of the progress the district has made over the last 7.5 years. However, our core issue has not been addressed, and...
By Shanthi Gonzales | May 19, 2022
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SXSW EDU launch winner Our Worlds bringing Native American culture to life through mobile-based immersive reality
Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter Take a stroll along the La Jolla Shores Beach in San Diego, and you might find sand between your toes. But users of the new Our Worlds app, winner of the 2022 SXSW EDU Launch Competition, might also find much more. Through augmented reality, they can look...
By Tim Newcomb | May 18, 2022
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Can college courses for high school students lure families back to LAUSD?
Updated May 18 This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Los Angeles Unified high school senior Hailey Galvan had never considered attending one of the country’s most elite colleges — until she took a special college course offered at her school. It was in...
By Rebecca Katz | May 17, 2022
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New research points to ‘Loudoun County effect’: When parents clash over ideology, kids’ school performance suffers
Since the 2020 election, schools have emerged as some of the most contentious venues for American cultural discourse, with debates over the teaching of race, human sexuality, and U.S. history erupting into yelling matches and viral confrontations. The political impact is increasingly seen in state and local elections, where school board members have faced a...
By Kevin Mahnken | May 16, 2022
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Meet the gatekeepers of students’ private lives
If you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. Megan Waskiewicz used to sit at the top of the bleachers, rest her back against the wall and hide her face behind the glow of a laptop monitor. While...
By Mark Keierleber | May 12, 2022
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An interview with writer Jonathan Chait on the Democratic war over education reform
Jonathan Chait has been writing about the fraught politics of education reform for over a decade. The veteran political columnist for New York Magazine is a vigorous advocate for the pillars of liberal education reform: high academic standards, school choice, and test-based accountability for schools and teachers who aren’t meeting expectations. It was an outlook that largely...
By Kevin Mahnken | May 11, 2022