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California Supreme Court Turns Down Petition To Partially Reopen LA Public Schools

January 21, 2021 2:27 pmJanuary 22, 2021 7:07 am

The California Supreme rejected a petition on Wednesday that would have started reopening Los Angeles public schools for special needs students. The petition, which was filed in December by child advocacy organizations the Alliance for Children’s Rights and the Learning...

LA Schools Superintendent Asks City, State to Have Schools Become Vaccination Sites

January 18, 2021 8:42 pm

On Monday, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent Austin Beutner announced that he requested both state and local officials to immediately turn all schools in the district into COVID-19 vaccination sites. In a letter to both California Health and...

LA School District Board Votes That District Can Sue State Over Gov. Newsom’s Reopening Plan

January 13, 2021 6:09 pmJanuary 13, 2021 6:11 pm

On Tuesday, the board of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted unanimously to sue California if the state decides to continue on with Governor Gavin Newsom’s reopening plan. Announced in late December, Governor Newsom currently calls for a...

Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti May Lift City Lockdown Measures in a Few Weeks

April 28, 2020 2:15 pm

Amid a series of press questions on Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti noted that “safer-at-home” COVID-19 coronavirus measures in Los Angeles would begin to be eased in as soon as two weeks. However, the Mayor also said that any...

California Education Department Produces Unintelligible Ethnic Studies Gibberish

August 12, 2019 8:20 amAugust 12, 2019 2:43 pm

More money, no reforms, no school choice expansion equals continued poor achievement by students. ~Lance Izumi While the California Department of Education has released an unintelligible draft of ethnic studies gibberish, California “education leaders” are pushing a bill for a...

Senator: LAUSD Budget Crisis Could Take Down State Budget

January 17, 2019 10:51 amJanuary 21, 2019 8:09 am

While the Los Angeles Unified School District contract negotiations with the Unified Teachers of Los Angeles labor union led to a massive strike this week, the fight over hiring more teachers and school staff in the nation’s second largest school...

LA Teachers Ready to Walk the Line

January 14, 2019 5:15 amJanuary 17, 2019 1:03 pm

Teachers in Los Angeles will be walking a picket line on Monday for only the third time in the Los Angeles Teachers Union’s (UTLA) five-decade history. The battle lines drawn in this dispute appear to be about not only salaries...