Karen Blackwell shares what a Foster VC Kids student taught her and encourages other community members to help at-risk youth.
The deal creates hundreds of new positions for school nurses, librarians and counselors and establishes formulas for class-size reductions.
Negotiations between the teachers union and the Los Angeles unified School District will resume Thursday.
LA school district officials said they's welcome the opportunity, but it remains to be seen if the two side will meet at the strike looms
As 33,000 LA teachers march toward a Jan. 10 strike deadline, their union is calling for a cap on the number of charter schools in LA.
As LA County Sheriff's investigators look into a video of an autistic boy being bullied, authorities work to teach kids how to intervene.
Local universities were ranked among the best return on investment nationwide including UCLA, UCI, Caltech, Long Beach and Northridge.
City Attorney Mike Feuer's School Safety study finalized Monday offers suggestions for improving school safety in the wake of mass shootings
Recent grads from participating high schools may be eligible for free tuition and up to $400 in textbook vouchers at Santa Monica College.
For the second time this month, the LA teachers' union declared an impasse in contract talks with the Los Angeles Unified School District.
The University of California offered nearly 137,000 students a spot, a vast majority from California amid pressure to admit more locals.
Rick Caruso will chair of USC's Board of Trustees, which is hiring a new president after the sex abuse scandal toppled the last one.
Austin Beutner, LAUSD's new superintendent toured schools from Northridge to East LA, meeting staffers as they sized up their new leader.
After two prominent candidates dropped out, the LAUSD Board of Education chose former LA Times publisher Austin Beutner for superintendent.
Investment banker and one-time LATimes publisher Austin Beutner appears to have the inside track among four finalists for superintendent.
Palisades Charter High School students are taking their shot at the California Academic Decathlon.
LA school officials are planning activities to honor of 17 killed in Parkland while asking students not to join a national walkout March 14.
LAUSD Board of Education voted to stick with early summer starts and long winter breaks for schools in Pacific Palisades.
Los Angeles Unified School District board member Ref Rodriguez pleaded not guilty to campaign finance conspiracy charges Tuesday.
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A contractor was sentenced to 50 days in jail and ordered to pay $3.1 million in restitution for false invoice scheme.
LAUSD Board President Dr. Ref Rodriguez calls President Trump's approach to affirmative action It is "deeply troubling and disheartening."
With a new pro-charter majority school board in place, Superintendent Michelle King assembled a working group to help fix schools.
The state’s nine UC campuses accepted about 70,000 incoming California freshmen out of roughly 106,000 freshman admitted overall.
Two new LAUSD board members backed by charter supporters took office Thursday, officially swinging the board's majority pro-charter.
The more ethnically diverse a middle school is, the more students report feeling safer, less lonely and less bullied, researchers found.
The Board of Education voted to extends Superintendent Michelle King's Contract two more years.
Students at Palisades Charter High School are, again, the center of a hate crime investigation after a black student was harrassed: BREAKING
A Pacific Palisades student was named a National Merit Scholar, earning $2,500 college scholarships.
The LAUSD board will vote on a vegan menu pilot program and a proposal to ban McDonald's "McTeacher's Night" school fundraisers.
Los Angeles schools took all four top spots in the state Academic Decathlon championship
LAUSD Board President Steve Zimmer will face Nick Melvoin in a runoff elections while incumbent Monica Garcia was re-elected.
One in 5 high school students and 1 in 4 elementary students say they were bullied last school year, according to a district audit.
Next year, LAUSD students will get three-week winter breaks and a start date in mid-August.
More than half of all students looking to get into the University of California applied with UCLA.
LA's contentious relationship to the charter movement is unlikely to change under a pro-charter U.S. Secretary of Education.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California will give out $233,000 to deserving high school students with a 2.7 G.P.A. or higher.
Students in Los Angeles will start the school year in early September instead of mid-August.
Fifty-four percent of the registered voters who participated in a poll said they were unaware of the Local Control Funding Formula.
ITT Technical Institutes announced Tuesday that it is ceasing operations following a ruling by the U.S Department of Education.