Teachers and parents played a key role in getting Los Angeles Unified students to perform well on state standardized tests.

While not mandatory, the law provides support for phonics — focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out — to ...

Bass spoke about homelessness, the Trump administration and Austin Beutner in a conversation with CBS LA's Ross Palombo on ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

Dominic Guerra, 17, shakes his head as he listens to a classmate's story during a rally Aug. 19 at L.A. Unified School District headquarters. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times) A new school year ...

A new school year brings an array of feelings: excitement, anticipation, nervousness, homesickness. Maria Caballero Magaña, a K-8 school counselor in Oxnard, knows these feelings well — familiar ...

The teacher, Melissa Tempel, was fired after tweeting about the district's decision to remove the song "Rainbowland" from a first-grade concert. The judge ruled that while Tempel was speaking as a ...

A former Burbank Unified School District Board of Education member has been charged following an investigation into the embezzlement of government funds. On June 4, 2025, the Burbank Police Department ...

PARADISE VALLEY, AZ — The Paradise Valley Unified School District is currently without its leader as the district’s governing board voted unanimously to put its superintendent on leave. Dr. Todd ...

SAN ANTONIO – An East Central High School student was detained after an unloaded pistol was found in their backpack, the district said in a letter to parents. According to East Central Independent ...

A Pomona high school was placed on lockdown for several hours as officers investigated a threat to the school that was later determined to be unfounded, police said. The Pomona Police Department ...