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For the 165 students in Nada Shaath’s Arabic-language classes at Bell High School, the Arab Spring has been as immediate and real as federal debt ceilings, same-sex marriage, or even the crisis in public education funding.
Since the swift departure of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben...
Dr. Judy Chiasson will talk to anyone who will listen. On this day, she is sprinting in her Mini-Cooper between Alhambra and West Hollywood, grabbing a cliff bar for lunch at a 7-Eleven on the way to yet another meeting.
Her job: spread awareness throughout LAUSD and beyond about anti-bullying,...
David Binkle, towering at 6’4,” still looks like the imposing figure who played one year at linebacker for the Montreal Concordes in the Canadian Football League in1985.
When he’s not serving as the LAUSD Deputy Director of Food Services, you can find Binkle moving with grace and...
Back-to-school traditionally signals the start of a new year for learning.
Goodbye summer. Hello new teachers, textbooks, studies, the Pledge of Allegiance, scheduled bells, new friends, cafeteria food, stuffed backpacks, BFFs, and much more.
This August and September, tens of thousands of...
125 students from Frank Del Olmo Elementary School had the opportunity last month to create artwork with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
See photos, and view comments from students and teachers about their experience.
Produced...
Yes, the stock market plunged. Yes, the federal government’s credit rating was downgraded for the first time in the history of this nation. What does this all mean for the schools and parents in LAUSD?
We asked: Chief Financial Officer Megan Reilly, Controller Yumi Takahashi and Deputy...
As a member of the Los Angeles Board of Education, Steve Zimmer experiences every day the crisis in our public schools. He has walked the streets looking for dropouts to bring back to school. He has agonized over California’s underfunding of public schools, leading to thousands of layoffs....
The Los Angeles Virtual Academy at City of Angels in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has no lockers lining the hallways or athletic teams students can join. There are no organized clubs for socializing on campus, no cafeteria, no school dances or scheduled bell ringing to signal the...
In the time it would take some of us to master proper pronunciation of the word “extemporaneous”, Gabby Pollack of Cleveland High School delivered a speech that captured first place in this year’s Skills USA competition in Kansas City, Missouri.
According to the rules...
Maria Casillas remembers the kindness of the administrative assistant who greeted her during a visit to her son’s LAUSD Valley-area middle school. The woman smiled as she asked in Spanish if Casillas was there to see the principal. Indeed, she was. An elementary school principal at the time,...
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