Stepping Forward

LAUSD’s Up-Trade Program: "Where Trading Makes Cents"

What happens when one school has too many chairs for its classrooms and another school has too few? LAUSD has an answer. Introducing the Los Angeles Unified School District’s new barter...

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Video: LAUSD Teachers Talk About DonorsChoose

Could your classroom use more technology, art supplies, or graphing calculators?  A new partnership between the Wasserman Foundation and DonorsChoose.org can help! Thanks to a $2 million...

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Retired UTLA Leader Helps Kids Overcome Common Eye Condition and Improve Reading Skills

Bill Lambert, the 82-year-old, retired head of government affairs for United Teachers, Los Angeles, lives in a lovely Tarzana home -- purchased long before several San Fernando Valley real estate...

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Math Teacher Turned Salsa Dancer

Patricia Holguin is best known as one of Cleveland High School’s many exceptional math teachers. She can be seen around campus, as well as around her classroom, H32, helping and tutoring...

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Local LAUSD Students Learn About Their History in Los Angeles

It was just a short bus ride but a visit to the new La Plaza de Cultura y Artes opened a new understanding to the students who came from Garfield, Lincoln and Law & Leadership in Entertainment...

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Diploma Project Offers New Hope for Keeping Students on Target to Graduate

If Superintendent Deasy meets his oft-stated goal of a 100 percent graduation rate for all students in the LAUSD, the Diploma Project can join in the victory lap. Launched with a five-year, $11.6-...

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Memoir Recalls Integration of LAUSD Schools in the 1980s

In February 1970, more than 15 years after the United States Supreme Court issued its famous Brown v. Board of Education decision, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alfred Gittleson ordered the Los...

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Contreras Student Shines at Press Conference Urging Governor to Sign Key Education Bills

For Catherine Baltazar, education goes beyond taking tests in the classrooms of Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in downtown Los Angeles. “I want to be able to participate in mock interviews,...

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Message From Justice Sotomayor Marks Day One At School Named In Her Honor

On the opening day of the new Sonia Sotomayor Learning Academies, students assembled in Ms. Renee Basford’s U.S. History class received a message from the person for whom the campus was named...

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More Than a Badge: How L.A. School Police Serve LAUSD Students Beyond Safety and Security

It’s roll call time! At 6:30 a.m. weekday mornings, Senior Police Officer John Guttierez and fellow Los Angeles School Police officers get the latest breakdown of crimes in and around the...

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