Whistleblowers have accused staff at East Oakland’s Castlemont High of manipulating grades for nine students.
Co-published by the American Prospect A year after Janus v. AFSCME, right-to-work forces organize against organized labor in California.
About 13,200 minors held in detention facilities will have funding for their educational services, recreational programs and legal aid cut by the federal government.
Also this week: The public school racial wealth gap, charter school operators indicted for stealing millions and CSU applicants may be hit with higher fees.
A lawsuit alleges dozens of incidents involving the use of force, including special-needs students being picked up and pushed against walls or pinned to floors.
A new report reveals that last year the state came up short about 8,000 of the 24,000 fully credentialed teachers it needed.
Negotiators have been trying to hammer out a deal for smaller classes, more student resources and wages capable of retaining teachers squeezed by gentrification.
Also this week: Governor Gavin Newsom chooses a new state education board president, Oakland teachers move closer to a strike and the money continues to flow...
Tuesday's real winner was union president Alex Caputo-Pearl, who cited district concessions on class-size reduction and on hiring more nurses, librarians and counselors as the biggest...
Contract talks between the Los Angeles school district and teachers union continue, but don’t expect classes to resume before Wednesday.
There was one key difference between last week's picket lines of Marlton School teachers and students, and those of other LAUSD schools: Marlton's chanted “Strike, strike,...
Persistent claims of poverty by the district have been the most contentious issue separating LAUSD and UTLA.
Los Angeles teachers' demands have moved away from bigger raises and toward more funding to alleviate deep education cuts. But what would constitute victory for their...
Co-published by the American Prospect Superintendent Austin Beutner and his allies have made it clear they do not believe that the L.A. Unified School District in its...
We look back on 10 Capital & Main stories that reported on the changing conflicts within public education.
A state-appointed fact-finding panel mostly punted on unresolved equity demands that form the heart of what Los Angeles' teacher union has framed as a fight to...
A Los Angeles school board meeting turned raucous days ahead of two solidarity rallies to be held Saturday in L.A. and Oakland.
California is one of the richest states in the nation but spends about the same on its students as states like Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana and South...
Bill Bloomfield has become one of the charter movement’s biggest supporters and has also played a pivotal role in the rise of a new breed of...
Doris Fisher and her family have quietly become among the largest political funders of charter school efforts in the country. Much of her money goes to...