Howard Blume covers education for the Los Angeles Times. He’s won the top investigative reporting prize from the L.A. Press Club and print Journalist of the Year from the L.A. Society of Professional Journalists chapter. He recently retired “Deadline L.A.,” a past honoree for best public-affairs radio program, which he produced and co-hosted on KPFK-FM (90.7) for 15 years. He teaches tap dancing and has two superior daughters.
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An angry school board and L.A. schools superintendent vowed to protect students and their families at schools and graduation events.
California sued the U.S. Justice Department Monday over its demand that local school districts ban transgender youth from competing in sports.
The Justice Department warned California school districts that they will face legal trouble if they don’t bar trans athletes from competition.
Trump’s revoking of Chinese students’ visas is the latest in a effort to quickly remake higher education in America, a controversial project that has roiled academia.
Lawsuit accuses Trump’s reshaped National Science Foundation of imposing ideology and across-the-board cuts at a cost of scientific and economic advancement.
The probe will look into whether California is violating the civil rights of cisgender girls by allowing transgender students to compete in school sports.
President Trump blasted Gov. Gavin Newsom in a post, saying the state under his leadership “continues to ILLEGALLY allow MEN TO PLAY IN WOMEN’S SPORTS.”
The brand-new $225-million campus is innovative. The library has no books; it’s all digital. Classrooms feature an expanse of windows. Security equipment is largely invisible.
Public school enrollment for the current school year totaled 5,806,221 students, a decrease of 31,469 or 0.54% from the prior year, according to the California Department of Education.