Long Beach is embracing its bicycle culture, and with more LBC-ers hopping on two wheels to navigate city streets, there's an increased need for bicycle safety education. To help get everyone riding smart and safe, the City of Long Beach is offering free bike safety clinics. more ›

Miramonte Elementary might be closed for another day as they work to situate a completely new staff from the custodians to the secretaries and every teacher, but the community at large still has the school under scrutiny. more ›

Perpetual University of California (UC) tuition hikes have also heightened the stress and anger levels of students. But a group of UC Riverside students have proposed a solution to tuition increases. more ›

For many children, a chance to do some artwork, make some music, or get up on a stage is the highlight of their school day, and a opportunity to learn lessons in a creative way. But the Los Angeles Unified School District is looking to take that away from their elementary school students, with a proposal of "total elimination of its elementary school arts education program." more ›

Los Angeles quartet OK Go, a band famous for their imaginative music videos, recently took to "Sesame Street" to teach youngins (and their parents) about the three primary colors. more ›

Kaiser Permanente wants its patients to thrive, and the healthcare organization also wants high school students to be sexually educated. Spreading sexually transmitted disease (STD) awareness to local high school students, Kaiser Permanente's Educational Theatre recently performed at John Wooden High School in Reseda. more ›

Today the USDA implemented new nutritional standards for school lunches, including allowing the two tablespoons of tomato paste on frozen pizza to count as a serving of vegetables. Yep, according to our government, pizza is a vegetable. more ›

One California farm industry group has awarded $1,000 grants to 100 preschools and day care centers in the state so that they may build and grow edible school gardens. more ›

Close, but no cigar: Supporters of a repeal of California's controversial DREAM Act, which enables some illegal immigrants to access public financial aid for higher education, came in at about 60,000 signatures short of what is needed to get a referendum on the ballot. more ›

Nearly a year after chef and activist Jamie Oliver visited LA and our schools' lunchrooms none other than Rush Limbaugh weighs in on our kids and their eating habits at LAUSD. Sounding more like Jonathan Swift sans irony, Limbaugh has responded on air to this weekend's LA Times piece on the new menu fail at the country's second largest school district. more ›

Mid-year budget cuts are coming in the state of California, and with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) set to lose out on $38 million, Superintendent John Deasy has announced today plans to sue the state. more ›

A Catholic High School in Torrance is closed for the day as authorities investigate an unspecified threat made late last week, according to City News Service. All classes at Bishop Montgomery High School are canceled today due to the threat, which was reportedly made on YouTube. more ›

To help get some Los Angeles-area kids familiar with fruit and how it grows, San Diego-based Stretch Island Fruit Co. brought their "Fruit Tree 101" program up north earlier this week to help get over 70 fruit trees planted on campuses. more ›

Students are rejoicing today after high winds have forced school district and campus closures throughout the San Gabriel Valley and Los Angeles area. Power outages and debris plagued residents last night and have continued to wreak havoc into this morning. more ›

Ah, the last day of school...a day for getting signatures in your yearbook, turning in your textbooks, trashing the contents of your notebooks and lockers, and watching a porno movie with your teacher. Oh, hold up: That's totally not what's supposed to happen, is it? more ›

Dogs rarely eat homework, but they do hunt for unscholarly little boys. An 11-year-old Laguna Niguel boy ran away from home on Monday night in fear of punishment for being a poor student. more ›

The campaign to overturn the DREAM Act is steadily gaining steam in California. Opponents of the state law, which allows undocumented high school graduates to apply for financial aid, have been gathering signatures throughout the state. If they get enough signatures, they will be able to put the issue up to popular vote. more ›

Local fifth grade photography students are putting their creative skills to good use this November and December, using their art to benefit the environment. The G2 Gallery's Jared Nigro joined forces with Todd Lesner's class at Westminster Avenue Elementary School in Venice to teach Lesner's students the art of the lens. more ›

Well, well, well, Manhattan Beach and La Cañada Flintridge... Looks like you both made the list among eight NorCal cities as two of the Golden State's most educated cities. We tips our hats to you both. Thank you for shining. more ›

Over 40 high school and middle students from South L.A., Compton and Inglewood visited Occupy L.A. on Saturday to gain a hands-on lesson on the growing global movement and the unbalanced economy. Organized by Good Jobs L.A., the event encouraged student participants to interview activists, engage in music and dance activities, stencil arm bands and craft their own protest signs. more ›

Occupy Wall Street has beget Occupy L.A. has beget Occupy LAUSD. The movement states "This is a call out to the 99% in the Los Angeles Unified School District. It is time we Reclaim Our Schools from the 1% wealthy." But what does "the man" have to do with huge class sizes, dirty classrooms, empty libraries, fallow gardens and laid off teachers? more ›

A group of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers, parents, students, and other district employees will march with the Occupy L.A. protesters this afternoon. The groups will leave the Occupy L.A. site at City Hall at 4 p.m. and head to the LAUSD headquarters on Beaudry for a rally and press conference. more ›

University of California (UC) campuses, we applaud you. Of the 400 international universities ranked in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings for 2011-12, eight UC campuses made the cut and were listed among the top 200. more ›

Laguna Beach transforms into an outdoor studio every year during the Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational. Hosted by the Laguna Art Museum and the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA), the event returns in 2011 to showcase 50 of the nation's top plein air landscape painters. more ›

She's a native Angeleno and the progeny of a Hollywood icon, and now actress Mariska Hargitay is paying it forward for young actors. The "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" star has given her alma mater, the UCLA School of Theater Arts and Television, $100,000 for an acting scholarship. more ›

Suri Cruise, the stylish 5-year-old daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, attended her first day of school last week. Aside from the obvious fact that she'll reap from the best of the best in academia, Suri's school is extraordinary. Thanks to her famous Scientologist parents, Suri has been enrolled at the New Village Leadership Academy in Calabasas. more ›

North Hollywood High School recently garnered national attention when it received a Washington Post nod ranking it in the top one percent of schools prepping its students for college. There's no doubt that the school's Highly Gifted Magnet program helped land it at such an honorable ranking. But this esteemed recognition is not enough for Principal Randall Delling, an ambitious man with major expectations. more ›

We love when celebrities put their money and time towards a good cause. The Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation, established by the Entourage Executive Producer himself, unveils its latest project, Graduate to Go Studios, in conjunction with The Taco Bell Foundation for Teens. more ›

Although cities and counties in California are creating legislation to ban the distribution of single-use plastic shopping bags by stores and restaurants, one group has seen to it California's students will read a section in their textbooks about the positives about the bags. more ›