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Oct 26, 2012 · California has a literacy problem. In 2022, Capitol Weekly reported California had the lowest literacy rate of any state in the nation. In 2023, just 43% of California’s third graders were reading at grade level. Literacy experts, teachers, and lawmakers all say the issue is dire, but they haven’t been able to agree on a...
LA School Board Race Tightens As Voters Show Support for $9 …
18 hours ago · For LAUSD Board District 5, which covers parts of Northeast and Southeast LA, Karla Greigo led Graciela Ortiz with 61% of the vote, versus 39% held by Ortiz. Meanwhile, LA voters turned out to show their approval for a $9 billion bond measure to repair and upgrade aging school buildings. As of Tuesday, 68% of ballots were cast in favor of ...
LA school board race could change the nation’s second-largest …
Oct 8, 2024 · Chang’s campaign and its backers have raised or spent more than $3.6 million so far in the race, compared to nearly $1.4 million for Schmerelson’s campaign. But with nearly a month left in the race, that could still change, Tokofsky said. Los Angeles Unified is the largest district in the country controlled by a school board.
LA Unified Seeks Voters’ Support for $9 Billion School Bond
Oct 31, 2024 · Los Angeles Unified is seeking voters’ approval for a $9 billion bond measure to repair and upgrade its aging school buildings. The bond, which Californians will vote on Tuesday as Measure US, would be LAUSD’s largest ever and paid for with property tax increases. It requires a 55% majority in order to pass. LAUSD Board...
LAUSD Overhauls $120 Million Black Students Program After …
Nov 4, 2024 · Los Angeles Unified has revised its leading effort to boost academic outcomes for Black students after conservative Virginia-based activists filed a civil rights complaint, charging the program uses race as a criteria for admission. The district’s $120 million Black Student Achievement Plan had a clear goal: lifting the academic …
The nation's biggest charter school system is under fire in ...
Feb 21, 2024 · The nation’s largest experiment with charter schools is no longer growing. These days, Los Angeles charter leaders say their schools are just trying to survive. With tough, new policies, falling enrollment, and a hostile district school board, the decades-old charter school sector in Los Angeles has never faced headwinds so stiff, operators say.
Los Angeles Makes Gains in Reading and Math – But Most Kids …
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. ...
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Dec 19, 2023 · The 2022-23 school year continued a time of transition and uncertainty for LAUSD, with district schools continuing to lose students, a three-day workers’ strike and low test scores. Here are the most read stories about the nation’s second largest school system: 1. Leaving Los Angeles: These 10 LAUSD schools lost the most students during ...
LA Housing Crisis Hits LAUSD as Number of Homeless Students …
Oct 9, 2024 · The number of homeless students who attend Los Angeles Unified schools rose by more than a quarter in the last school year, new statistics show. As of the 2023-2024 school year, LAUSD enrolled 17,245 homeless students, up 26% from the previous school year, according to data the district made public last month. The dramatic jump...
Best education articles of 2022: Our 8 most shared stories about …
Jan 3, 2023 · Preparedness: Combing through Smarter Balanced test results in November, LA School Report’s Joshua Bay found the greatest decline in test scores was among female students – a 2.76 percentage point decrease in ELA and 6.16 percentage point decrease in mathematics. Latino students also fared badly, with a 2.71 percentage point decrease on the ...