
Tuesday 900-plus schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District shut down after an email was sent to several school board members threatening a terrorist attack. The letter was later deemed a hoax. The decision to close the schools was
by Adelle Nazarian17 Dec 2015, 1:49 PM PST0

Orange County’s Chapman University was evacuated Tuesday and cleared Tuesday night following a report of a man “possibly” carrying a gun.
by Michelle Moons16 Dec 2015, 9:19 PM PST0

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck is defending Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent Ramon Cortines’s decision to close the district’s schools on Tuesday because of an emailed threat.
by William Bigelow16 Dec 2015, 10:49 AM PST0

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced Tuesday morning that all of its schools will be closed for the day due to a terror threat. The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that a bomb threat was called in to a school board member, the Los Angeles Times reports.
by Joel B. Pollak15 Dec 2015, 7:18 AM PST0

On Tuesday, a nationally recognized teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District was fired in a unanimous vote by the Los Angeles Board of Education after a joke about Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn led to a broader investigation.
by William Bigelow15 Oct 2015, 11:36 AM PST0

On Thursday, LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines suspended all commercial film shoots at Los Angeles Unified schools.
by William Bigelow9 Oct 2015, 9:12 AM PST0

On Sunday morning, public school teachers, panicked and angry over billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad’s ambitious plans to expand charter schools, picketed the opening of his new art museum.
by William Bigelow21 Sep 2015, 11:15 AM PST0

Students heading back to public school next week expecting a side of French fries may be surprised to learn the only thing deep-fried in the Texas Agriculture Commissioner’s school lunch plan are its federal ties.
by Merrill Hope22 Aug 2015, 8:32 AM PST0

The Hispanic-dominated Los Angeles Unified School District Board has decided it is better to let failing students graduate with D grades rather than deny them a diploma because of their poor grades in college prep classes.
by William Bigelow10 Jun 2015, 4:10 PM PST0

Scott Schmerelson, the first Republican elected to the LAUSD Board of Education in decades, has stated he wants to end “social promotion,” the practice of advancing failing students to the next grade because of fears that holding them back would damage them psychologically.
by William Bigelow4 Jun 2015, 10:05 AM PST0

Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education announced Monday that it is exploring possible litigation against technology giant Apple and software developer Pearson for their role in the failed iPad launch designed to put a computer on the desk of 650,000 students in the district.
by Robert Wilde17 Apr 2015, 7:50 AM PST0

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is cutting the School Readiness and Language Development Program, a half-day pre-school program, in the face of statements by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that pre-school programs should be available to all who want them.
by William Bigelow12 Apr 2015, 1:44 PM PST0

Parents and students from Revere Charter Middle School and Magnet Center in Los Angeles have launched a petition to restore a teacher to his job after the 29-year-veteran was suspended by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for allegedly using racial terms in class. The petition had neared 800 signatures by Monday morning.In addition, the students held a rally on Monday at the school.
by William Bigelow24 Mar 2015, 10:41 AM PST0

The California Board of Education has suspended the state Academic Performance Index (API) for the 2014-15 school year while it constructs a new school accountability system based on the state’s four-year-old federal Common Core standards.
by Daniel Nussbaum13 Mar 2015, 6:03 AM PST0

The Board of Education for the Los Angeles Unifies School District (LAUSD) has a new plan to help illegal alien students facing removal from the country: have the district’s lawyers volunteer time to help the students fight deportation. Although the ostensible
by William Bigelow11 Feb 2015, 12:29 PM PST0