In the first half of the 2018-2019 school year, LAUSD called police more than 3,000 times.
Restorative justice remains a new way of thinking for Los Angeles' 1,300 public schools -- even as administrators continue to call the cops on troublesome students.
Twenty-two charters — nearly all of them in high-poverty neighborhoods -- accounted for 42 percent of L.A. charter schools' nearly 3,700 suspensions last year.
Los Angeles charters suspended black students at almost three times the rate of traditional schools; students with disabilities were suspended at nearly four times the non-charter...
Marvin Miller, who freed Major League Baseball players from virtual serfdom, would be angry as hell at the team's behavior in Boston.
Co-Published by The Guardian and MapLight Blackstone is quietly funneling investors’ money into its campaign against Proposition 10.
Co-published by Fast Company It's all about housing. And health care. And student loan debt and more. "Entitled" Millennials have had enough.
Co-published by WNYC and Sludge Revolving Doors: New York state’s chief investment officer invested millions of retirement dollars in a fossil fuel company – and then...
Good news/bad news for state schools. Charter lobby's burned bridge problem. Austin Beutner ratchets up tensions with Los Angeles teachers.
Why Betsy can't count. How school kids lost 11 million days of class. Will CAVA cave?
Co-published by MapLight and Fast Company Under Republican governors, two states pumped hundreds of millions of dollars of pension cash into a high-risk hedge fund that...
LAUSD's empty chair. A prep academy shuts its doors. Reed Hastings helps launch a $200 million something.
Co-published by Fast Company Is our budding tech utopia setting the stage for a working-people's dystopia? Welcome to California's cost-of-living crisis.
This week Capital & Main launches an ongoing project focusing on the broken economics of what is, according to one recent MIT analysis, America’s most expensive...
A teachers' pension fund is in the money . . . Is a Kevin De León bill in the IRS's crosshairs? . . . The State...
If privatization is making American education the Wild West for those wishing to profit off children using public dollars, then Los Angeles Unified is its Tombstone.
Co-published by Westword Colorado lawmakers passed landmark legislation Wednesday night reducing pension benefits for thousands of teachers, firefighters, cops and other public sector workers.
Co-published by Westword Pension officials across America have been willing to use retirees’ money to pay huge fees for investments that may not beat low-fee stock...
Co-published by Westword While calling on public employees to sacrifice, Colorado's legislators have plowed one-fifth of these employees' retirement savings into "alternative investments" that yield subpar...
The New York Times has credited Sirota’s Wall Street reporting for showing “that secrecy can hide high fees, low returns, excess risk and the identity of...