California
With California’s youngest students showing progress, state officials and education experts say the state’s middle schools, which have stagnated, need to be the next focus of school reform.
July 31, 2000
The Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District board has voted to spend $4.9 million to create separate schools for students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades.
Dec. 13, 1992
A 13-year-old student who allegedly brought fentanyl pills to campus was taken into custody after a school employee was exposed to them.
Sept. 13, 2022
Faced with soaring costs because of increased enrollment, Burbank school officials have adopted a plan to create four-year high schools and scale back elementary schools to kindergarten through fifth grades.
March 19, 1988
In an effort to break what they see as a stalemate between the state and federal governments, Los Angeles school officials are asking the state to shift $30 million earmarked for five special high schools to be used instead for fixing earthquake-damaged campuses.
June 23, 1994
“Magnet Schools: A Tilted Playing Field” (Opinion, May 27) does a good job describing LAUSD’s convoluted magnet application system but overlooks the greater problem--how that system devastates neighborhood schools.
June 2, 2001
Audubon Middle School is pulsing with energy and ideas, but the South L.A. campus needs students -- and many of them need more engagement. Enter the music moguls.
June 15, 2021
A Pasadena middle school is the first in L.A. County to be certified by rigorous International Baccalaureate program.
Feb. 20, 2002
The West Covina school board, acting on cost-cutting proposals to close up to five schools, voted Tuesday to shut down one of the district’s high schools, but deadlocked on the recommended closure of two junior high schools and two elementary schools.
Feb. 11, 1988
The Las Virgenes Unified School District has taken the first step toward establishment of year-round schedules at two schools.
Oct. 16, 1986