A Change for the Better at Northridge Middle School

Students Strive to Success Thanks to a Driven Principal and Staff
 

It’s been a long and steady road to success for the...

Making the 1960s Relevant to This Generation

American life in an era of protest and change before Facebook and video games

Those sick and tired of hearing about the 1960s will get no relief for the next several...

Belmont Students Perform with 80s Iconic Band-Foreigner

“It’s like a dream come true,” exuded Elizabeth, a choir member from Belmont HS, Multi-Media Music Academy, as she described singing the chorus for 80’s rock group-...

Continuing the Road to Graduation

Americans usually favor the underdog, the rages to riches stories, the underachiever who made it big or the sports teams that came from behind to win it all. That same sentiment can also apply...

Randy Rodarte Can’t Stop the Music

This story is part of the LAUSD Journal's series entitled “Profiles in Progress,” which will focus on teachers who incorporate their own,...

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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-million federal grant in February of this year, the Diploma Project targets students matriculating...

Photos: Attendance Recognition Event for Beaudry Staff 2010-2011

On Thursday, a special presentation was held for Beaudry-based employees with perfect attendance in 2010-2011 fiscal year. Next week, certificate will be sent out to school-based employees with perfect attendance. Congrats to all employees with Perfect Attendance in 2010-2011!     A...

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 Angeles Unified School District Board of Education to draw up a desegregation plan for the LAUSD, to...

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, to be able to go out into the real world: jobs, college, life and be professional and prepared for...

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. “As you may know, my background is similar to many of yours … I lived in a housing...

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 schools of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Together, they ask the questions: What type...

Not A Typical Summer Vacation

Summertime—and the living is easy, so the song goes. School is out for students as well as for principals, teachers and staff, who also get a hard-earned break. Vacation is for sleeping late, traveling, enjoying sports, heading to the beach, barbecuing, going to the movies, reading a good...

District has High Expectations for Four Federally-Funded Magnets

Not one test has been graded, nor one student late with her homework, but already the new Center for Enriched Sciences magnet is popular with parents. Opening September 7th, and located on the West Hills campus of Lockhurst Elementary School, the Center has an enrollment of 103 students, grades 1-...

Video: LAUSD We Believe

We believe in our students, we believe in our teachers, and we believe in our employees who continuously support our schools to help them succeed. We have so many dreams for our students. Let's celebrate what LAUSD offers to the youth of Los Angeles and neighboring cities.   Produced by:...

A Peek Inside the Planning of the 2011 LAUSD Superintendent’s Annual Meeting

At 8:05 a.m., August 24, Jane Pollock, Planning Committee Chairperson for this year’s LAUSD Superintendent’s Annual Meeting, soaked up the organized chaos before her. Clipboard in hand, she stood quietly in the back of Hollywood High School’s auditorium and surveyed the room. The...