Articles tagged with schools

 
Campus threat. A 19-year-old student has been detained as a “person of interest” in connection with threats to Santa Monica College and East L.A. College and lockdowns have been lifted at the schools. 

Police got a call around 8 o’clock this morning from a man identifying himself as a student, saying he was going to bring an assault weapon to the schools and shoot up …

Governor’s budget. Gov. Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal includes more money for schools, and less money for just about everything else. Even with state revenues surging, Brown’s revised budget trims $1.3 billion from the plan he presented in January.
Brown says there’s no guarantee the surge in tax revenue will last. And he says California’s finances remain unstable because of the federal sequester budget cuts …

While officials in Washington debate gun legislation, cities and counties are debating how they can make schools safer in the wake of the Newtown massacre. One question that arises is: should local school districts invest in armed guards or in services that may prevent violence in the first place?

Last month the small city of Fontana, in San Bernardino County, received a shipment of semi-automatic …

School Shooting. Taft Union High School in Kern County is closed this morning, one day after a 16-year-old opened fire with a shotgun in a classroom and critically injured a peer. Authorities he’ll be charged with attempted murder. The teen allegedly targeted two boys who he claimed bullied him. One of those boys – a football player – is the injured student. He’s expected …

Guard duty. Senator Barbara Boxer wants to deploy National Guard troops at the nation’s schools. In the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut shootings, Sen. Boxer has introduced legislation that would give schools more money for security improvements. Part of that includes allowing the nation’s governors to use Guard troops to watch over schools as they see fit. L.A. Times
Fighting fire. A San Juan Capistrano …

Retiring type. Former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan says his team simply didn’t have the time it needed to collect the nearly 300,000 signatures required to qualify a pension reform measure for the May ballot. Riordan has abandoned the effort. His measure would have scaled back benefits for current city workers and required new hires to accept a 410(k)-style retirement plan instead of a guaranteed …

We’ve talked at length about propositions 30 and 38, which generate funding for California’s struggling schools. Both propositions will generate billions of dollars to benefit California’s struggling schools. At the same time, they both attempt to protect the middle class from new taxes. But they don’t have much else in common.
The differences are numerous and account for why this fight between Gov. Brown and …

Funding for K through 12 public education has been cut by 25 percent over the past five years here in California. The cutbacks have had big implications for the LA Unified School District–the biggest district in the state. But California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson says LA Unified isn’t alone. He’s hearing from schools up and down the state that are struggling due to California’s …

The Los Angeles Unified School District is, of course, is in the business of K-12 instruction, but what’s not as well known is that the LAUSD also educates 300,000 people through its Division of Adult Education. The students in the program are enrolled in everything from English as a
second language classes to vocational training programs, but what unites many is they’ve gone back to …

Teachers from Miramonte Elementary School spoke out for the first time since they were transferred out of their classrooms in February, in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations involving two teachers at the school.
About a hundred parents, students and teachers gathered at Augustus Hawkins High School in South LA. The school opens in the fall, so right now it’s being used to house the …

First in Compton, now in Adelanto — out in the Mojave Desert — elected school boards have rejected petitions by parents to reform failing schools. In both cases, the signatures of enough parents to “trigger” reforms have been withdrawn at the last minute. Was there fraud, intimidation or outside pressure? What was the role of the teachers’ union? Will Adelanto become ground zero for …

The 2nd annual Los Angeles Student Media Film Festival took place last weekend. There were 300 submissions and the festival showcased the best 32, showing films ranging from whimsical animation to documentary to this nerdy blogger’s personal favorite, “Student Trafficking,” a charming newscast produced out of Santa Monica High School. The piece won the won the Newscast Public Affairs category:

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Today, the L.A. Unified School District’s board will consider reforms that are supposed to make it faster and easier for the district to get rid of teachers and personnel charged with crimes. They’re also supposed to better inform parents when crimes are suspected to have occurred in a school.
Right now, tenured educators have a right to an administrative hearing within 60 days of being …

Hey, parents of children attending the L.A. Unified School District, school system officials say they want to know your opinion. Really, they do! The district has launched an online survey directed at the approximately 170,000 parents who have registered their email accounts with the LAUSD. Among its questions, the survey asks parents how much homework should count towards students grades and whether the district …

It’s Santa Ana season. The winds were howling while we dodged fallen palm fronds on the way into work this morning. Schools are closed for a “wind day” and the lights were out at LAX last night.
Here’s a picture of downed lines outside Which Way, LA? listener Doug Osborne’s house. He says two trees fell.
Here’s my favorite Santa Ana quote:
Los Angeles weather is the …