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.

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. ...

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...

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.

Shortly after the Centers for Disease Control unveiled new federal guidance surrounding reopening schools for in-person learning — guidance that prioritizes masking and social distancing as key strategies and outlines a new color-coded system for measuring surrounding community spread — the union representing more than 35,000 Los Angeles teachers pushed back against the suggestion that...

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.

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 ...

Jan 29, 2025 · Hopes for a post-COVID academic recovery were dashed Wednesday morning with the publication of new federal testing data for elementary and middle schoolers. Newly released scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often referred to as the Nation’s Report Card, show that both fourth and eighth graders have …

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...

Aug 27, 2024 · A week before classes at Los Angeles Unified began earlier this month, attendance workers tasked with fighting chronic absenteeism fanned out across the city, visiting the homes of children to make sure they’d show up for the first day of instruction. Knocking on the doors where kids had repeatedly missed school, the workers told parents...