aggregated from: LAist

Students Run L.A. participants from Hollenbeck Middle School (via SRLA Students site) Thanks to a program founded in 1995, hundreds of Los Angeles Unified School District students are running around the city today. They're taking part in the 25t...

topics: lausd, los-angeles, los-angeles-unified-school-district, marathon, running

aggregated from: LAist

Up until Monday, the portion of the yard at Saturn Street Elementary school marked as the garden was still asphalt. It's taken much hard work by the staff, students, parents, and local community, but today marked the launch of t...

topics: antonio-villaraigosa, celebration, food, herb-wesson, lausd

aggregated from: LAist

Photo by Omar Omar via Flickr Your LADWP electricity bill will likely be increasing April 1st to help the nation's largest municipal utility cover its bills and build its renewable energy portfolio, thanks to a unanimous vote yesterday by its boa...

topics: affordability, antonio-villaraigosa, city-council, lausd, los-angeles

aggregated from: LA Observed

An early morning quake, Villaraigosa raises DWP bills a whole bunch, the Whitman-Poizner debate and Jamie McCourt as a candidate for mayor — and president. More after the jump. There was a magnitude 4.4 earthquake at 4.04 a.m. located...

topics: candidate, lausd, mayor, republican, villaraigosa

aggregated from: Ex-Liberal in Hollywood

(More info on LAUSD corruption here)...

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TwitPic There's not a lot of good news out of the LAUSD very often these days, but there is some hope growing, and it smells a little bit like fresh dirt. That's because today Board Members Monica Garcia and Marguerite La Motte and the Mayor's D...

topics: east-los-angeles, lausd, los-angeles, mayor

aggregated from: LA Now Blog

The superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District said Thursday that he would reassign three South Los Angeles elementary school teachers after they had their students display pictures of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul in a Black...

topics: lausd, los-angeles, los-angeles-unified-school-district, obama, parade

aggregated from: LA Now Blog

The superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District said Thursday that he would reassign three South Los Angeles elementary school teachers after they had their students display pictures of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul in a Black...

topics: lausd, los-angeles, los-angeles-unified-school-district, obama, parade

aggregated from: The Sausage Factory

Federal officials who plan to launch a probe of Los Angeles Unified's English-language learner program next week said Wednesday they targeted the district because of its size and low performance, but not because of any complaints or violations. Conni...

topics: lausd, los-angeles, san-fernando

aggregated from: LAist

Photo by Wm Jas via Flickr The federal government wants to know if the nation's second-largest school district denied educational opportunities to students learning English, according to the Daily News. The Department of Education's civil righ...

topics: government, lausd, los-angeles, san-fernando