The Los Angeles Unified School Board last week approved a $18.8 billion budget for the 2023–24 school year that includes the last of its pandemic aid—and is beginning to prepare for operating without such funds. Over the next two school years, the district will invest $4.2 billion—most of which comes from one-time emergency COVID-19 relief…
Los Angeles Unified Approves $19 Billion Budget, Warns of ‘Shifts’ for Staff
June 29, 2023
admin
Alberto CarvalhoCaliforniaLAUSDLos Angeles Unified School DistrictRegional & State NewsSouthern CaliforniaState NewsUS
0 Comment
Academic Group Recommends Expanding Los Angeles City Council to 25 Members
June 16, 2023
admin
CaliforniaLos Angeles city councilLos Angeles Unified School DistrictRegional & State NewsSouthern CaliforniaState NewsUS
0 Comment
The controversy over leaked tapes and racially disparaging remarks from city councilors that fueled outrage in Los Angeles last year has spurred a group of the city’s top academic scholars and researchers to reimagine their local government. Eight months later, the Los Angeles Governance Reform Project, a group of university scholars, researchers, and leaders, is asking…
Parents Protest Pride Event at California Elementary School
May 24, 2023
admin
CaliforniaLos Angeles Unified School DistrictNorth HollywoodRegional & State NewsRegional NewsSouthern CaliforniaState NewsUS
0 Comment
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Some parents at Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood are calling for a boycott of a Pride event scheduled at the school next month, encouraging other parents to “Keep your kids home and innocent.” That is part of the message being distributed on a flyer to protest the Pride assembly, and some parents…
Los Angeles Unified Teachers Ratify Contract With 21 Percent Pay Raise, Critics Question Affordability
May 9, 2023
admin
Alberto CarvalhoCaliforniaEducation & Family NewsLos Angeles Unified School DistrictRegional & State NewsSouthern CaliforniaState NewsUnited Teachers of Los AngelesUSUS News
0 Comment
The union representing Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) teachers voted to ratify its contract with the district last week, meaning the union’s 35,000 members will get a 21 percent bump in pay over the next two years. United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) announced that 94 percent of their members voted to ratify the…
2 Students Stabbed Outside Los Angeles High School, Suspects at Large
May 2, 2023
admin
CaliforniaLos Angeles High SchoolLos Angeles Police DepartmentLos Angeles Unified School DistrictRegional & State NewsSouthern CaliforniaState NewsUS
0 Comment
LOS ANGELES—Police are looking May 2 for suspects who stabbed two students near Los Angeles High School in what Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho called another “senseless” attack. The students, both 16, who were stabbed were taken to a hospital trauma center and are in stable condition, police said. The attack occurred…
New LAUSD Contract Slights Students, Taxpayers
May 1, 2023
admin
CaliforniaLos Angeles Unified School DistrictOpinionRegional & State NewsSouthern CaliforniaState NewsUnited Teachers of Los AngelesUSViewpoints
0 Comment
Commentary The unfortunate students of the Los Angeles Unified School District! The new contract the district worked out with the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) union says it’s to help the kids, but it’s really only to help the union and its members—with the taxpayers picking up the tab. The UTLA’s website boasted the…
Crash That Killed Mother, Injured Girl Near LA School Possibly Due to ‘Medical Emergency’: Police
April 26, 2023
admin
CaliforniaFatal car crashHancock Park Elementary SchoolLos Angeles Police DepartmentLos Angeles Unified School DistrictRegional & State NewsSouthern CaliforniaState NewsUS
0 Comment
LOS ANGELES—A crash that killed a woman and critically injured her 6-year-old daughter near Hancock Park Elementary School “appears to be a tragic accident,” police said April 26, adding that the driver who struck them in a crosswalk may have suffered an unspecified medical emergency. The woman in her 30s was walking in a crosswalk…
Woman Killed, Daughter Injured in Crash Near Los Angeles Elementary School
April 25, 2023
admin
CaliforniaHancock Park Elementary SchoolLos Angeles Police DepartmentLos Angeles Unified School DistrictRegional & State NewsSouthern CaliforniaState NewsUS
0 Comment
LOS ANGELES—A woman in her 30s was killed and a roughly 6-year-old girl believed to be her daughter was critically injured April 25 when they were struck by a possibly impaired driver while walking near Hancock Park Elementary School in the mid-Wilshire area. The crash was reported at about 8 a.m. near Fairfax and Colgate…
Los Angeles Unified Service Workers Overwhelmingly Approve New Labor Deal
April 8, 2023
admin
CaliforniaLos Angeles Unified School DistrictRegional & State NewsService Employees International UnionSouthern CaliforniaState NewsUS
0 Comment
LOS ANGELES—Thousands of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) service workers overwhelmingly approved what has been described as a “historic” labor agreement, with over 99 percent of members voting in favor of the deal, union officials said April 8. The roughly 30,000 members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 99 cast ballots on…
Los Angeles Unified Shortens Winter Break from 3 Weeks to 2 Weeks
April 5, 2023
admin
CaliforniaEducation & Family NewsLos Angeles Unified School DistrictRegional & State NewsSouthern CaliforniaState NewsTeachers UnionUnited Teachers of Los AngelesUS
0 Comment
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) last week announced it would significantly cut its winter break—a move that has the district’s teachers union crying foul. The district March 27 announced plans to shorten its three-week winter break—which typically takes place from mid-December to the first week of January—to two-and-a-half weeks in the upcoming 2023–24…
US News
RSS Error: A feed could not be found at `https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-us/feed`; the status code is `200` and content-type is `text/html; charset=utf-8`