Budget cuts, staffing reductions and school consolidations are coming to Los Angeles Unified as the cash-strapped district ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District has seen some impressive academic results over the last few years. But in pursuing ...

Last month, the U.S. Department of Education announced that K-12 schools will receive $122 billion under the American Rescue Plan’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. State and ...

Education policy and Hollywood rarely intersect.  But when filmmaker Rob Reiner latched onto the science about how young ...

Earlier this week, Los Angeles Unified School District teachers rallied to protest what they call “teacher jail.” These are the places LAUSD instructors and other school staff are sent when they’re ...

Your donation will help us produce journalism like this. Please give today. Marguerite LaMotte, the long-serving member of the LA Unified school board, died this morning in San Diego, where she was ...

Your donation will help us produce journalism like this. Please give today. George McKenna doesn’t talk about it much, but Denzel Washington played him in a TV movie called “The George McKenna Story.” ...

The Rust Belt city of Rochester in upstate New York has the most economically segregating school district border in the country, walling off the high-poverty education system from its affluent ...

Before there were Dreamers, thousands of young Latinos marched out of their East Los Angeles classrooms half a century ago for their right to be educated. “I was never told I was college material or ...

Your donation will help us produce journalism like this. Please give today. LA Unified has so many different kinds of schools, it’s hard to keep them all straight. With such varied terms as affiliated ...

It was in physical education class when Laila Gutierrez swapped out self-harm for a new vice. The freshman from Phoenix had long struggled with depression and would cut her arms to feel something.

Old accusations of sexual misconduct by LA Unified Superintendent Ramon Cortines resurfaced today in a new lawsuit that includes explosive new assertions sure to cause anger, embarrassment and ...