Wealthy parents caught gaming the system. Eli Broad spends on privatization. The price of each vote for L.A. school board race.
An election reversal for L.A. charter school forces. Oakland teachers' uneasy victory. Betsy DeVos backs a bill everyone hates.
Meanwhile, Oakland teachers break out the picket signs and LAUSD discovers the joys of transparency.
Why would LAUSD hire a man already on the carpet both for sexual harassment allegations and landing a suspiciously cushy job at USC?
Gavin Newsom's most dramatic break from the Jerry Brown era is the governor-elect's fierce commitment to high-quality child care and universal preschool.
L.A. Unified reimagines the 1990s. The effects of immigration crackdowns on Latino student enrollment. Tony Thurmond rallies to take the lead in state schools chief race.
Co-published by Westword Fallout from Colorado's Amendment 74 could land on all states’ efforts to curb pollution and climate change.
In final weeks of race, pro-charter forces fill the coffers. DeVos fails to kill student debt relief rule. The kids are alright with socialism.
Wanted: Black College Students (just not at our college). Diane Ravitch's Power Elitists. An inconvenient truth for LAUSD.
Why Betsy can't count. How school kids lost 11 million days of class. Will CAVA cave?
LAUSD's empty chair. A prep academy shuts its doors. Reed Hastings helps launch a $200 million something.
DeVos takes an ax to student-loan forgiveness. A charter school folds in Los Angeles, while striking Banning teachers walk the line.
Flex Learning Options for Workers (FLOW), a new online addition to the 115-school community college system, is set to launch in fall, 2019.
The Los Angeles Unified School District has more homeless students than many school districts have in total enrollment. In response, the district has created some innovative...
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...