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Five Long Beach teens arrested for allegedly groping classmates
Five Long Beach teens, including at least two football players, have been arrested for allegedly groping female classmates at Polytechnic High School, according to school district and police officials. The boys, who are not being identified because they are minors,...
Assault on Calabasas boy may be tied to Facebook message targeting redheads
Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives are investigating an assault on a 12-year-old middle school boy in Calabasas who may have been targeted after a Facebook group urged students to beat up redheads, a sheriff’s official said today. The boy was...
Hiltzik on KCRW: California school funding system 'ridiculously complex'
Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik took measure of California's system for funding education this week and found it lacking … to put it mildly. Here's an excerpt from Thursday's column: Anyone who has spent time in or around government, from...
UCLA students end a day of protest over fee hikes
After a day of protests over student fee hikes that roiled the UCLA campus, a final group of students who had taken over Campbell Hall left the building peacefully this evening. There were about 25 students when the group dispersed...
Castaic finally closing in on getting its own high school
Plans to build a long-awaited high school in Castaic have moved one step closer to fruition, after a decision to conduct simultaneous environmental impact reports on two potential sites. “This has been an emotional and political issue in our valley;...
Inglewood school board member charged with embezzlement
An Inglewood school board member is scheduled to be arraigned on charges she embezzled several thousand dollars from the Inglewood Unified School District. Trina Williams, 49, allegedly overcharged the district $7,500 for training and traveling expenses over the span of...
UC regents approve fee hike amid loud student protests [Updated]
Amid loud student protests that roiled the UCLA campus, the UC Board of Regents this afternoon approved a 32% increase in student fees. The fee hike of $2,500, or 32%, will come in two steps by next fall. That would...
Hundreds rally at UCLA to protest expected 32% increase in student fees
A second day of protests roiled the UCLA campus today as the UC regents prepared to approve a 32% increase in student fees. Groups of UC students from several other campuses arrived in Westwood to join a noisy demonstration against...
L.A. charter schools win Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant
A consortium of Los Angeles-area charter schools has won a $60-million grant to develop a new teacher evaluation system based at least partly on student test scores. The grant, part of $335 million in related awards announced today by the...
Veteran substitute teachers win back seniority rights in L.A. Unified
Veteran substitute teachers in Los Angeles will get more work and a shot at keeping their health benefits after the teachers union approved an agreement restoring their seniority rights. The agreement approved Wednesday night puts back in place a system...
Students storm UCLA building to protest expected UC system fee increase [Updated]
About 30 students stormed UCLA’s Campbell Hall and barricaded the doors with chains and bike locks early this morning to protest a student fee increase that is expected to be endorsed by the University of California’s Board of Regents today....
Donuts for Dads: 250 men read to students at Watts elementary school
More than 250 men, including LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, participated in a program this morning at 99th Street School in Watts aimed at getting fathers involved in their children's education. Called Donuts for Dads, the...
UC Regents committee approves student fee increases; at least 14 protesters arrested at meeting at UCLA
A University of California Board of Regents committee today approved a series of controversial increases in student fees that, if passed by the full board, will raise UC undergraduate education costs by more than $2,500, or 32%, in two steps...
Cal State trustees approve budget; protesters rally outside Long Beach headquarters [Updated]
The California State University's Board of Trustees today approved a 2010-11 budget that seeks $884 million in state support to bolster a system struggling to recover from severe funding shortfalls. The trustees, who were meeting in Long Beach as their...
Eight arrested at UC Regents meeting at UCLA
Soon after the UC Regents meeting began today, demonstrations broke out inside the hall, UCLA’s Covel Commons, disrupting a presentation by UC President Mark Yudof on the budget situation and his recommendation for student fee increases. When the protesters refused...
University of California student fees could increase by more than $2,500
A UC Board of Regents committee is expected to recommend a series of highly controversial increases in student fees today that would raise undergraduate education costs by more than $2,500, or 32%, in two steps by next fall. The first...
L.A. mayor and teachers union to compete for control of Jefferson High
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the teachers union will compete for control of Jefferson High School under one of the nation’s most closely watched school-improvement initiatives. Today marks the first key deadline — the final day for groups inside...
USC again has most foreign students, followed by NYU [Updated]
For the eighth consecutive year, USC enrolled the highest number of foreign students of any U.S. university last year, a new report shows. USC, which recruits strongly in Asia, hosted 7,482 international students in the 2008-09 school year, according to...
30 L.A. schools: Who gets to run them? Key deadline today in reform plan
Today marks the first key deadline for a much-watched school-reform plan that allows groups inside or outside the Los Angeles Unified School District to bid for control of 12 struggling schools as well as 18 newly constructed campuses. Groups must...
Personal data of Cal Poly Pomona applicants inadvertently put online
The Social Security numbers, home addresses and phone contacts for at least 300 students who applied for admission to Cal Poly Pomona six years ago were unintentionally disclosed online, the university said today. The applicants were notified this week and...
Four Latino Angelenos win scholarships for math, science
In an effort to bring more Latino youth into science and technology, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health today announced 10 students (four of them Angelenos) won a $42,500 scholarship for college tuition and internship support. Over the next five...
Job training programs set to receive some of L.A.'s federal stimulus money
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today announced that the city is making $10.3 million in federal stimulus money available for worker training programs. The grants will be issued by the Community Development Department. Of the $10.3 million, $4 million will...
L.A. school leaders, community groups to debunk inflammatory flier aimed at undocumented parents [Updated]
Two L.A. Unified School District leaders plan to hold a news conference this morning with community groups to debunk a Spanish-language flier claiming illegal-immigrant parents who sign a petition calling for a charter school will be deported. [Updated at 8:45...
Chez Panisse's Alice Waters visits a Los Angeles charter school
Alice Waters, the chef-owner of the landmark restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, came to Los Angeles today to talk about school lunch and school gardens at the Larchmont Charter School. Our colleagues at the Daily Dish report: When Alice Waters...
Former L.A. Community College District chancellor takes Middle East post
Marshall Drummond, former chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College District and of the statewide community college system, has a new job in higher education. He recently started as chief academic officer and provost for the Higher Colleges of Technology...