Howard Blume

Read this exciting story from Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026 issue. Scores are better for math. Bright spots in state include L.A. and Compton students.

Gov. Newsom announces record education funding and how he'd like to spend it — including rainy-day reserves and a massive boost to help students with disabilities.

LOS ANGELES — Computers — and all other digital screens — would be banned for Los Angeles public school students until second grade, according to a draft plan to limit screen time.

A draft plan being considered by Los Angeles Unified School District would ban screens for kindergarten and first grade students, and enforce screen time limits for higher grades later this year and next.

LOS ANGELES - More than 1,000 Los Angeles school workers are expected to lose their jobs after the Board of Education on Thursday approved layoffs

LOS ANGELES — More than 1,000 Los Angeles school workers are expected to lose their jobs after the Board of Education on Thursday approved layoffs

Read this exciting story from Los Angeles Times May 23, 2026 issue. More than 1,000 Los Angeles school workers are expected to lose their jobs after the Board of Education approved layoffs and, separately, after district management quietly terminated the employment of workers without tenure or other union job protections.

LOS ANGELES – This election cycle marks the end to a generation of bitterly contested Los Angeles school board races that became the most expensive

LOS ANGELES – This election cycle marks the end to a generation of bitterly contested Los Angeles school board races that became the most expensive

The difference? Charter school supporters — who had poured tens of million of dollars into races to elect board member sympathetic to their