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Pasadena Unified receives positive certification from LA County on budget report
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (405+ words) The Los Angeles County Office of Education has awarded the Pasadena Unified School District a positive certification on its recently submitted first interim report. In December, PUSD submitted the report to the county oversight agency, which districts are required to…...
California politicians wrongly fixate on education spending instead of results
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (444+ words) Gov. Gavin Newsom devoted most of his'final State of the State address'last week to touting what had been accomplished during the past seven years, and one boast was about California's public school system educating nearly 6 million kids in grades K-12. Newsom…...
East Los Angeles College names Perez its new president
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (278+ words) East Los Angeles College names Perez its new president'Los Angeles Daily News Monte E. Perez has been named president of East Los Angeles College, a campus he has been leading on an interim basis for more than a year. "I am…...
There are dozens of Little Free Libraries in the San Fernando Valley
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (184+ words) There are dozens of Little Free Libraries in the San Fernando Valley'Los Angeles Daily News There are dozens of Little Free Libraries in the San Fernando Valley, found in the front yards of residents, in parks, and at the entrances…...
LAUSD begins second semester of 2025-26 school year
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (517+ words) Los Angeles Unified School District officials on Monday celebrated the first day of the second semester of the 2025-26 school year, saying that classrooms will remain a safe haven for students and parents. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho touted the district's success in…...
San Fernando Valley and surrounding communities looking at a prosperous 2026
1+ week, 1+ day ago (656+ words) A unifying message at a Jan. 12 business summit gathering was that 2026 is going to be a good year for the San Fernando Valley. Erika Beck, president of CSUN, touted the university's partnerships throughout the community and the innovative career choice…...
Eliot Arts Magnet, other displaced PUSD schools, remain without permanent home
1+ week, 2+ day ago (880+ words) Even more than one year after her Eliot Arts Magnet classroom was destroyed in the Eaton fire, Mary Herrera nearly daily goes through a mini-emotional rollercoaster. She'll remember a folder filled with letters that her students have written her in…...
Judge blocks Trump administration from purging DEI-related terms from Head Start grant applications
1+ week, 5+ day ago (149+ words) By MORIAH BALINGIT, Associated Press A Health and Human Services spokesperson said he could not comment on the judge's order. Head Start, founded six decades ago as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty, is an early education and…...
Trump officials and Louisiana put an end to another decades-old school desegregation order
1+ week, 5+ day ago (490+ words) By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer A federal judge on Monday approved a joint motion from Louisiana and the U.S. Justice Department to dismiss a 1967 lawsuit in DeSoto Parish schools, a district of about 5,000 students in the state's northwest. It's the…...
Wildfire anniversary was a chance for this Pasadena school to celebrate resiliency
1+ week, 5+ day ago (576+ words) But Wednesday morning's assembly was different. They'd be read "Home: A Story of Resilience," by author Carrie Barnes, a book they'd read last year at the outbreak of the Eaton fire. Barnes had written it to help her own son…...