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L.A.’s schools chief knows what it’s like to be undocumented
A visit by federal agents to two elementary schools drew an angry, impassioned response from the superintendent, Alberto ...
Los Angeles jury awards $48 million to students abused by teacher at South El Monte school
A jury has awarded $48 million to six former students of a South El Monte elementary school who were sexually abused by a ...
Underperforming DC schools' staff has grown 7 times faster than enrollment: audit
An audit of D.C. Public Schools' found staffing levels in the district have increased at a rate of seven-and-a-half times ...
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Feds say agents went to LA schools to do welfare check on migrant children
The Department of Homeland Security says its officers visited two Los Angeles public elementary schools this week to do a ...
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Los Angeles schools leader explains why he refused to let DHS agents see students
Officers with the Department of Homeland Security recently attempted to enter elementary schools in Los Angeles but were not allowed in. Agents claim to have been conducting a welfare check, not an ...
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LA schools superintendent says he'll protect undocumented students 'to the very end'
DHS said it was conducting wellness checks on students who arrived unaccompanied to the border. The head of the Los Angeles ...
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What is a ‘wellness check’ and why is Homeland Security doing them at LAUSD schools?
Melkonyan and the other immigrant children’s advocates noted that the officials who went to the two LAUSD schools are part of ...
Senators demand end to federal ‘welfare checks’ in Calif. schools
U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff are demanding answers Friday from the Trump administration about last week’s ...
LAUSD expects $1.3B deficit; per-student budget up 229%, students down 29%
Los Angeles Unified School District reports student enrollment is down 29% while per-student spending is up 229% and staffing ...
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After the wildfires, Beverly Hills shut out students whose school burned
The dispute between the Beverly Hills district and some Palisades parents raises a broader question of what a school district owes its neighbors after a major disaster.
LACCD Trustee Nichelle Henderson wants to be California’s top schools chief
Los Angeles Community College District Trustee Nichelle Henderson has joined a growing list of candidates who have formally ...