The LA Daily News reports that the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), in an effort to encourage students to show up to class, is giving away some pretty impressive gifts to students with exemplary attendance.
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After a brief manhunt, a Los Angeles Unified School District elementary school teacher was located and arrested Monday after allegedly stabbing his estranged wife to death Saturday morning. [ more › ]
A certificate used to be enough for students with perfect attendance at the end of the school year. But in the Los Angeles Unified School District, two perfect attendees throughout high school received new Chevrolet Sonics, priced at $18,000, for showing up to school every day. Show More Summary
Warning: The video above is all sorts of cute and adorable but also really something special. A group of students from Olympic Primary Center in the Los Angeles Unified School District perform Cyndi Lauper’s anthem, “True Colors,” as part of an end of the year celebration before moving on to the 1st grade. Mr. Arturo [...]
Click here to view this media A kindergarten class at the Olympic Primary Center in the Los Angeles Unified School District ended their school year by sending a message in support of LGBT rights by performing Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" using American Sign Language.
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In California, fully 58 percent of all disciplinary actions were for that category, not for the serious offenses you might imagine. Almost every state has an equivalent category.
The Los Angeles Unified School District has offered $17 million to help settle 40 lawsuits accusing the district of not protecting children from a teacher who blindfolded his students, put cockroaches on their faces and fed them his semen as part of a twisted "tasting game." [ more › ]
A first of its kind sex education program is being taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District, in which students as young as 12 are encouraged to share their HIV and STD status with their sexual partners by way of a text message that reveals they were tested for HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. Show More Summary
The Times' editorial board endorsed 5th-grade teacher Monica Ratliff for a seat on the Los Angeles Unified School District board -- twice -- but that doesn’t mean we expected her to win.
I said a few entries back that liberals lack common sense. Here is further proof, as if further proof is needed: This week, the Los Angeles Unified School District—the second-largest in the nation—decided to end the practice of suspending or...
Los Angeles Schools Re-Think Suspension WSJ: This week, the Los Angeles Unified School District—the second-largest in the nation—decided to end the practice of suspending or expelling students for "willful defiance," starting this fall. Show More Summary
In a groundbreaking resolution, the Los Angeles Unified District school board voted Tuesday to ban suspensions for “willful defiance,” making it the first district in the state to do so.
In a groundbreaking resolution, the Los Angeles Unified District school board voted Tuesday to ban suspensions for “willful defiance,” making it the first district in the state to do so.
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced last week that it will discontinue the free school breakfast plan it initiated last year. Called “Food for Thought,” the plan provides school breakfasts to about 200,000 students. It...Show More Summary
The California school system spends thousands of dollars per year per pupil. But if Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy has his way, that number will skyrocket. Deasy wants to purchase iPads for some 660,000 LAUSD students. Show More Summary
A man who worked as an elementary school teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District has been arrested on child pornography charges.
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Castro was a social studies teacher in different schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He was a central figure in the 1968 East L.A. Chicano Blowouts. [ more › ]
The parent-trigger movement underwent a maturation process in its latest campaign, a petition to restructure 24 th Street Elementary in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Unlike in previous campaigns, there were no lawsuits against the district, no claims by parents that they had been duped into signing the petition. Show More Summary
In 2008, the Los Angeles Unified School District began quiet negotiations with Planned Parenthood to establish one of their many East L. A. abortion clinics on the Roosevelt High School Campus. This was to be a pilot project, a test to see what response this clinic aroused. There are twelve (12) future sites for clinics [...]
Officials are working to set up a system that would allow students to enter popular magnet programs all year long in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The revamped admission process, previewed at Tuesday’s school board meeting, would address a...