By Jason Song
Guidelines for the Race to the Top money for states will be released Thursday. State legislators will have to scurry to make the application deadline.
By Larry Gordon
UC, CSU and community college campuses are well-regarded despite recent furloughs and reduced class offerings. Yet only 41% of those surveyed would support higher taxes to offset budget cuts.
By Carla Rivera
The increase puts added pressure on the 23-campus university system, which has raised tuition 30% this year and plans to cut enrollment by 40,000 students in the face of a severe budget crisis.
By Gerrick Kennedy
Staff members team up to lose pounds and gain cash prizes. The district hopes their successes will inspire students to make better food choices too.
By Howard Blume
This year's earlier due date is tied to the district's effort to improve its own forecasting of enrollment for the following school year, an official says.
By Esmeralda Bermudez
The addition of the Mendez learning center disrupts age-old campus loyalty -- to Roosevelt or Garfield highs, which are locked in a 75-year rivalry.
By Bob Pool
They went as temps to work at a Koreatown rehab center for deaf people. When funding dwindled, they stayed on without pay.
By Elaine Woo
The Jesuit priest also was a dean and professor at Boston College.
By Howard Blume
The loss of students, apparently to charter schools in some cases, is bad news for the district's budget -- with funding based on attendance. It also has resulted in fewer teachers and larger classes.
By Mitchell Landsberg
The New York-based organization pledges the funds to seven cities, including Los Angeles, to research and improve teacher quality, student assessment and school funding, among other things.
By Christi Parsons
In a tough talk on education, the president spells out criteria for winning $4.35 billion in federal grants. He challenges rules that say teachers should not be judged by how their students perform.
By Jeff Bleich
Watching the decline of the California State University system from within its boardroom mirrors the erosion of the California dream.
A bill that would attract federal school grants also includes too many disparate ideas to be practical.
By Seema Mehta
Friday night's shooting jolts parents who consider campus to be the safest school in Long Beach.
By Jean Merl and Ann M. Simmons
Many cities and school districts, hit hard by the recession, will ask voters Tuesday to approve new spending.
By Nicole Santa Cruz
The campus that for years was under state monitoring has improved test scores, attendance rates and student participation.
By John M. Glionna
Children in the Indonesian jungle navigate a mighty river with plenty to entice and scare modern-day Huck Finns: giant barges, invisible logs and deep currents. And crocodiles and poisonous snakes.
By Anna Gorman
Almost 30% of those placed early on in such programs in L.A. Unified were still in them when they started high school, study says. The sooner students moved on, the more they excelled.