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Swirling their full, ruffled skirts like the soothing waves of a balmy Pacific Ocean, first one way and then another, in time with the lyrical music, the girls also clicked a rhythm that has been repeated in folklorico dances for decades in Sinaloa and Nayarit, coastal states of...
The famed guitarist’s tours the Carlos Santana Arts Academy in North Hills.
During the nearly four hours he spent at the school, Santana visited classrooms, toured the library, and heard a variety of musical performances from LAUSD students, including 23 fourth- and fifth-graders in the...
What does Los Angeles Unified School District Board Member Nury Martinez and several members of the Fair Avenue Elementary School Mariachi Band have in common? They all listed “Black Magic Woman” as their favorite song in Carlos Santana’s vast repertoire.
That unusual...
Riveted to the big screen, more than 150 journalism students scrutinized a documentary film that exposes how “Big Tobacco” systematically covered up scientific evidence proving nicotine is addictive.
No one spoke as “Addiction Incorporated” played on a recent Tuesday in...
Lisa Regan, an 11th-12th grade history/social science teacher at Washington Preparatory High School, makes no secret about her passions.
“I have a passion for teaching and a passion for history and social science,” she said as her eyes widened. “It comes from my philosophy...
For many students and employees of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the revolution that began in 1910 is as relevant as the revolution that began in 1775.
The more recent one, which took place in Mexico from 1910 to 1920, resulted in the deaths of millions of people and the...
To commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. day, second grade students from Buchanan Street Elementary School wrote short stories about what they think made Dr. King a great leader.
What qualities made him a great leader?
By: Cristina Gonzalez
He...
More than 300 LAUSD student musicians representing 45 high schools in the District participate in the 2011-2012 All-District Marching Band.
This year, the band will celebrate its 40th consecutive appearance in the 2012 Tournament of Roses Parade.
Watch students in the LAUSD All-District...
When Jodie Newbery was a senior at the University of Chicago in 2004, she applied with Teach for America (TFA). The program accepted Newbery, and assigned her to a school in Compton.
But the California native, who attended high school at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Los...
Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, before Rolling Stone and MTV, when only Ed Sullivan, Dick Clark and a few others were tracking rock and roll from above, teen listeners would hear a song by a new performer on the radio and might not know for months anything about the person’s appearance....
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