This story was originally published at LAist In an instant, Blanca Carrillo and her daughter Aurys Hernandez lost everything. Their home in Altadena was also the place they’d built a thriving daycare for young children.

16 hours ago · Hopes for a post-COVID academic recovery were dashed Wednesday morning with the publication of new federal testing data for elementary and middle schoolers. Newly released scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often referred to as the Nation’s Report Card, show that both fourth and eighth graders have …

Jan 14, 2025 · 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.

Jan 21, 2025 · It was just after 1 am when Los Angeles charter school superintendent Ian McFeat started getting text messages and phone calls at a relative’s house where he was sheltering from the fires. His neighbors said his house was burning down in the wildfires – along with his entire Altadena neighborhood of Los Angeles. Aveson School...

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 ...

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.

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 …

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. ...

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...

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...