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Los Angeles school officials have a message for President-elect Donald Trump about his promised immigration crackdown: we’re ready for you. Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, who came to the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant from Portugal, said this week the nation’s second largest district is preparing for the incoming administration’s planned mass...
LA Schools Struggle To Reopen As Fires Still Rage
1 day ago · Los Angeles Unified schools reopened Monday, as educators worked to provide respite for shell-shocked students seeking refuge from uncontrolled fires still raging across the city. LAUSD officials said Sunday night the nation’s second-largest district would reopen all but seven schools that were destroyed, badly damaged or immediately threatened by flames.
Reading Crisis in LAUSD: ‘This is … a Problem with a Responsibility ...
Dec 4, 2024 · Reading rates in LAUSD schools with the onset of the coronavirus, and Los Angeles students have yet to fully recover. Just 43.1% of LA Unified students met state proficiency targets in reading in the 2023-24 school year, compared with 44.1% in the 2018-19 school year, the last before the pandemic. Meanwhile, Families in Schools is...
Los Angeles Makes Gains in Reading and Math – But Most Kids …
Oct 24, 2024 · The Los Angeles Unified School District showed improvement on state test scores released this month, but most students are still not hitting state proficiency standards. Like other school systems across the country, LA Unified saw student achievement plummet during COVID-19. LAUSD scores have risen some since then, with underperforming student groups making particularly big gains. ...
LA School Board Race Tightens As Voters Show Support for $9 …
Nov 13, 2024 · Update Nov. 20: LA voters overwhelmingly approved a $9 billion bond measure to repair and upgrade LAUSD’s aging school buildings. Measure US was backed by LAUSD school board members, district superintendent Alberto Carvalho, the teachers union and local construction groups; and passed with 68% of the vote. Measure US …
New Los Angeles School Board President Targets District’s …
Dec 16, 2024 · The new president of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education says he wants to fight the district’s cratering enrollment with new policies and approaches.. Scott Schmerelson, who has worked in the LA Unified School District for nearly four decades and has served on the board since 2015, was elected and installed as president by …
LA Unified struggles to reassure parents amid rising school violence
Oct 3, 2024 · Parents of students in the Los Angeles Unified school district are raising concerns after four guns were found on campuses and a stabbing left a student in serious condition — all within the first three weeks of school.. The troubling start to the school year comes amid a rise in violence at LA Unified schools that has been ongoing for years.
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Shortly after the Centers for Disease Control unveiled new federal guidance surrounding reopening schools for in-person learning — guidance that prioritizes masking and social distancing as key strategies and outlines a new color-coded system for measuring surrounding community spread — the union representing more than 35,000 Los Angeles teachers pushed back against the suggestion that...
Leaving Los Angeles: These 10 LAUSD schools lost the most …
Oct 6, 2022 · Enrollment in Los Angeles Unified schools has been dipping for years, declining even more during the pandemic — but which schools saw the biggest drops and why?. The enrollment drop of close to 6% during the pandemic came from a concoction of factors including families moving out of state, students switching to non-LAUSD schools with looser COVID restrictions, and children having to stay ...
Facing Financial Constraints, LAUSD Must Rethink Priorities
Dec 3, 2024 · The Los Angeles Unified School District was able to avoid the hard choices that many districts around the state had to make in the 2024–25 budget year. They experienced only a 2% budget reduction and did not have to lay off personnel. This may have been in part because LAUSD was able to rely on...