LA School Report
This story was originally published on CalMatters. Rural school districts — already beset with financial struggles — are furiously scrambling to save a century-old funding source that Republican lawmakers last month eliminated from the federal budget.
LA Schools Struggle To Reopen As Fires Still Rage
Jan 14, 2025 · Los Angeles Unified schools reopened Monday, as educators worked to provide respite for shell-shocked students seeking refuge from uncontrolled fires still raging across the city. LAUSD officials said Sunday night the nation’s second-largest district would reopen all but seven schools that were destroyed, badly damaged or immediately threatened by flames. Questions about the district’s ...
Los Angeles Makes Gains in Reading and Math – But Most Kids …
Oct 24, 2024 · The Los Angeles Unified School District showed improvement on state test scores released this month, but most students are still not hitting state proficiency standards. Like other school systems across the country, LA Unified saw student achievement plummet during COVID-19. LAUSD scores have risen some since then, with underperforming student groups making particularly big gains. ...
LA Schools Reopen, But Recovery Will Be Long and Painful
Jan 21, 2025 · It was just after 1 am when Los Angeles charter school superintendent Ian McFeat started getting text messages and phone calls at a relative’s house where he was sheltering from the fires. His neighbors said his house was burning down in the wildfires – along with his entire Altadena neighborhood of Los Angeles. Aveson School...
New Los Angeles School Board President Targets District’s …
Dec 16, 2024 · The new president of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education says he wants to fight the district’s cratering enrollment with new policies and approaches.. Scott Schmerelson, who has worked in the LA Unified School District for nearly four decades and has served on the board since 2015, was elected and installed as president by …
LA Unified struggles to reassure parents amid rising school violence
Oct 3, 2024 · Parents of students in the Los Angeles Unified school district are raising concerns after four guns were found on campuses and a stabbing left a student in serious condition — all within the first three weeks of school.. The troubling start to the school year comes amid a rise in violence at LA Unified schools that has been ongoing for years.
The nation’s biggest charter school system is ... - LA School Report
Feb 21, 2024 · The nation’s largest experiment with charter schools is no longer growing. These days, Los Angeles charter leaders say their schools are just trying to survive. With tough, new policies, falling enrollment, and a hostile district school board, the decades-old charter school sector in Los Angeles has never faced headwinds so stiff, operators say.
Students Need More Than In-School Cellphone Restrictions
Jan 6, 2025 · California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently sent a letter to K-12 leaders urging them to restrict students’ use of smartphones while in school. As the governor noted, regulating phone use leads to improved concentration, better academic outcomes, and enhanced social interactions among students. I applaud Gov. Newsom’s call for …
Facing Financial Constraints, LAUSD Must Rethink Priorities
Dec 3, 2024 · The Los Angeles Unified School District was able to avoid the hard choices that many districts around the state had to make in the 2024–25 budget year. They experienced only a 2% budget reduction and did not have to lay off personnel. This may have been in part because LAUSD was able to rely on...
Reading Crisis in LAUSD: ‘This is … a Problem with a Responsibility ...
Dec 4, 2024 · Reading rates in LAUSD schools with the onset of the coronavirus, and Los Angeles students have yet to fully recover. Just 43.1% of LA Unified students met state proficiency targets in reading in the 2023-24 school year, compared with 44.1% in the 2018-19 school year, the last before the pandemic. Meanwhile, Families in Schools is...