Howard Blume

Los Angeles Unified school principals — saying their workload is too heavy and the pressure to raise student achievement, manage complex budgets and keep campuses safe is too intense — have voted to join the Teamsters union in a rebuke […]

Scott Schmerelson, a retired principal who became an unlikely politician, is the new president of the Los Angeles Board of Education weeks after winning a tight and costly reelection in which he overcame well-funded opposition. Schmerelson, 73, takes the helm

Two students were stabbed on campus Monday at Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga. Both students were hospitalized with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening, and a suspect was detained by police, according to a school district update.

Newly elected Los Angeles school board members say they are united in a mission to protect the district’s most vulnerable — students and staff who are immigrants or LGBTQ+ — following wins that are generally a plus for Supt. Alberto

Vandals broke into a South Los Angeles elementary school for the sixth time since July over the weekend, causing an estimated $115,000 in damages and adding to a steady toll of recent losses due to theft and vandalism in the

The Los Angeles Unified School District showed strong gains in newly released state metrics and reached a record graduation rate, but overall academic performance fell well short of state learning goals. The latest release of state data indicated positive trends

The head of an education technology startup that created a highly touted chatbot for the Los Angeles school system has been arrested and charged with fraud. Federal prosecutors, in an indictment unsealed Tuesday, accused Joanna Smith-Griffin of defrauding investors and

Bracing for the return of President-elect Donald Trump, the Los Angeles school board is moving quickly to reaffirm the nation’s second-largest school system as a sanctuary for immigrants and the LGBTQ+ community and to propose a new high school course

The governing body of the L.A. teachers union has weighed in on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, voting Wednesday to support a congressional effort to block the sale of more than $20 billion in U.S. weaponry to Israel on the grounds

A pedestrian died Saturday night after being struck by a Metrolink train between the Lancaster and Palmdale stations. About 70 passengers were stranded on the train for more than 90 minutes during the initial phase of the investigation, and travel