Feds Sending Some Tech Support To LAUSD
The U.S. Department of Education will be sending a team to work with the Los Angeles Unified School District on tech issues.
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The U.S. Department of Education will be sending a team to work with the Los Angeles Unified School District on tech issues.
Los Angeles Unified School District officials got the green light Thursday to spend another $13 million on iPads and laptops to use in student testing planned for the spring.
The Los Angeles Unified School District's bond oversight committee approved more than $12.1 million in funds to help repair a glitchy computerized student information system, on top of the $33 million in previously approved bond funds.
The LAUSD is responding to criticism from employees after cafeteria workers were told to only speak English.
Worker unions are firing back at the Los Angeles Unified School District after they allegedly told cafeteria workers at Harvard Elementary School they could only speak English on campus.
Fixing the Los Angeles Unified School District's troubled computerized student information system is going to take time and it will cost money, Superintendent Ramon Cortines told the district's board Tuesday.
Outgoing Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy hinted Friday at a run for public office, but he would not say exactly what post he might seek.
A $1.1 million plan aimed at fixing class-scheduling issues at Jefferson High School will be discussed by the Los Angeles Unified School District board Tuesday.
The Los Angeles Unified School District board will consider a $1.1 million plan aimed at resolving class-scheduling issues at Jefferson High school at their meeting Tuesday.
Officials from the Los Angeles Unified School District met with administrators and teachers at Jefferson High School Thursday to discuss class-scheduling problems that prompted a judge to order immediate intervention from the state Department of Education.
The Los Angeles Unified School District has won a $13 million federal grant to expose students from sixth grade and up to college.
Police at Los Angeles Unified School District schools will no longer issue citations for most campus fights, petty theft and other minor offenses, but instead will refer students to counseling and other services.
Students at the nation's second largest school district will be shielded from prosecution and sent to administrators for low-level offenses as part of a sweeping reform to the way school police respond to bad behavior.
The district on Thursday said it will serve free lunches through summer to children and the disabled at 317 school campuses along with 105 parks and recreation centers.
A special education teacher's aide was arrested Monday after allegedly assaulting students and staff at Van Nuys Elementary School.
Some Southland students are still unaccounted for following Thursday's deadly bus crash in Northern California.
An instructor at a downtown Los Angeles school believes he was placed in "teacher jail" because of two student-submitted science fair projects.
Pot-laced brownies sent three Lincoln High School students to the hospital.
Representatives for both sides said Tuesday the agreement calls for adding a school counselor and administrator, establishing a mentor program for teachers and providing other educational resources.
Citing a section in the California State Education Code from 1976, which calls for at least one non-voting pupil member, school board members voted Tuesday to approve the inclusion of a student.
Los Angeles Unified School District officials are trying to figure out how to convince students not to dump their healthy lunches.
The principal of an elementary school in Winnetka was removed from his post following allegations of misconduct.
A 9-year-old girl who attends Sunland Elementary said she is scared to go to school because she's being bullied by another third-grade student.
The founders of the Facebook group "Repairs Not iPads" Tuesday will hold a rally to express their outrage at the Los Angeles Unified School District's controversial plan to spend more than a billion dollars on iPads for students.
After outcry from critics who say schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District are poorly maintained while the district spends a $1 billion to furnish students with iPads, a district official says buildings are safe and constantly monitored.
