LAUSD, Teachers Union Still at Impasse as Threatened Strike Nears
Tensions over union contract negotiations with Los Angeles Unified School District, mounting since United Teachers Los Angeles announced its intention earlier in December to call a Jan. 10 strike,...
View ArticleHow to Make the Teachers Strike Productive for Your Kids
As the Los Angeles teachers strike enters its third day, parents not sending their kids to school (and most of us aren't: Recent stats indicate about 82 percent support the teachers' cause) may find...
View ArticleFour Days In: Protest, Publicity and the Fight for Public Education
In the first three days of L.A.’s historic teacher strike, the battle over the future of the city’s public schools raged on in competing press conferences, school and LAUSD site picket lines,...
View ArticleBeyond the Classroom: L.A. Teachers Share Their Personal Stories
L.A. Weekly gets personal with L.A. teachers from diverse backgrounds and teaching in neighborhood schools across the city, to learn how and why those who chose to work in the LAUSD do so, and about...
View ArticleWho Will Replace Disgraced President Ref Rodriguez on LAUSD Board?
The criminal saga of former Los Angeles Unified School District Board President Refugio “Ref” Rodriguez ended last week with resignations from the board and his plea on laundering campaign...
View ArticleNo African-Americans on Los Angeles Community College Board After Vote
Several African-American candidates for an opening on the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD)’s Board of Trustees are challenging the board's decision to put David Vela in the seat to...
View ArticleSome Teachers Say Deal to End Strike "Is Not What I Picketed for"
Outrage over UTLA’s voting process and contract terms reverberated among its rank-and-file members and across social media after the teachers strike ended. UTLA ultimately reported 81 percent of its...
View ArticleOtis' Report on the Creative Economy States the Obvious (in a Good Way)
On Friday morning, Otis College released its findings for the 2019 Otis Report on the Creative Economy, and, as L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas put it at Friday morning’s official...
View ArticleBeyond the Classroom: More Personal Stories From L.A. Teachers
Our ongoing series featuring L.A.'s dedicated educators sharing their stories and experiences in their own words continues with Angelita Rovero, a native Angeleno, community organizer and LAUSD teacher...
View ArticleWho Is Going to Save Our Kids From Depression?
We need to bring our depressed kids out from the shadows, shine a light on them and start having the conversations that will help them cope with this disease.
View ArticleBeyond the Classroom: L.A. Teachers Share Their Personal Stories
L.A. Weekly gets personal with L.A. teachers from diverse backgrounds and teaching in neighborhood schools across the city, to learn how and why those who chose to work in the LAUSD do so, and about...
View ArticleMike Sonksen Writes Home
New from Writ Large Press (the Los Angeles wing of the Accomplices literary collective), comes poet and professor Mike Sonksen’s long-awaited follow-up to his landmark instant-classic song of the city,...
View ArticleHigher Education at the Sushi and Doobie Rolling Workshop (Video)
It was an evening of high dining and higher education in an industrial section of Culver City this weekend at the Mary Jane University sushi and doobie rolling workshop, hosted by Potfessor Keiko...
View ArticleWhy L.A. Parents Should Vote Today in the Board of Education's Special Election
Today is Board of Education election day in Los Angeles, but many parents won’t actually take the time to go out and vote. This is not OK. Yes, we’re all busy with work, and just trying to keep afloat,...
View ArticleThink Your Kid Won't Eat Healthy? Try Sending Him to La Canada High
Chef Jammar Jones serves a few hundred meals a day in two seatings and manages a kitchen staff of about 14. Known for his multicultural cuisine, Jones is a stickler for locally sourced produce and...
View ArticleAt YOLA, an Ambitious Frank Gehry Redesign Makes the Case, and a Place, for...
The L.A. Philharmonic last week unveiled Gehry’s design for its $14.5 million YOLA Center (the full name is the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center @ Inglewood), a permanent home for the...
View ArticleBeyond the Classroom: More Personal Stories From L.A. Teachers
Our ongoing series featuring L.A.'s dedicated educators sharing their stories and experiences in their own words continues with Angelita Rovero, a native Angeleno, community organizer and LAUSD teacher...
View ArticleMike Sonksen Writes Home
New from Writ Large Press (the Los Angeles wing of the Accomplices literary collective), comes poet and professor Mike Sonksen’s long-awaited follow-up to his landmark instant-classic song of the city,...
View ArticleHigher Education at the Sushi and Doobie Rolling Workshop (Video)
It was an evening of high dining and higher education in an industrial section of Culver City this weekend at the Mary Jane University sushi and doobie rolling workshop, hosted by Potfessor Keiko...
View ArticleWhy L.A. Parents Should Vote Today in the Board of Education's Special Election
Today is Board of Education election day in Los Angeles, but many parents won’t actually take the time to go out and vote. This is not OK. Yes, we’re all busy with work, and just trying to keep afloat,...
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