Local high school students involved in LAUSD culinary programs recently took part in the annual Careers Through Culinary Arts Program (C- CAP) event, and a few managed to chop the competition and receive scholarships to culinary schools and colleges. more ›

The legacy of retired Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Ramon Cortines endures just a little bit more now, thanks to the board's vote of approval to pay out $200,000 to settle a sexual harassment claim filed against him by an employee. more ›

The District Attorney's Office announced today they have charged a Los Angeles Unified School District teacher's aide with a dozen felony counts for allegedly committing lewd acts on a child. The suspect, 25-year-old Jorge Luis Dominguez, was working for Gratts Learning Academy, a LAUSD elementary school, as a part-time aide at the time of his arrest. more ›

When Food Revolution Day brought Jamie Oliver back to LA with his "Big Rig" on the UCLA Medical Center's campus, it was time to check in with him to see where he felt things stood in L.A. more ›

A 25-year-old man who worked in a temporary post as a teacher's aide at Gratts Elementary School in the Westlake district was arrested this morning on suspicion of committing lewd acts on children. The suspect, Jorge Dominguez, was subsequently terminated by the Los Angeles Unified School District. more ›

A teacher was removed from a North Hollywood middle school classroom yesterday for alleged misconduct. more ›

The Board of Education for the Los Angeles Unified School District approved a proposal yesterday to change graduation requirements so that all students will be eligible for California state university systems. more ›

The Los Angeles Unified School District school board will meet today to discuss an "educational equality" policy that was designed to help all students get a fair shot at college but it could make high school graduation requirements more challenging. more ›

LAUSD took drastic measures this February when it discovered that not one but two teachers on the Miramonte Elementary school campus were accused of being really inappropriate with students. It relocated the rest of the staff to the unopened school of Augustus Hawkins High School in South Los Angeles. more ›

A group of sixth graders at Rancho Dominguez Prep School in Long Beach say they discovered their substitute teacher had possibly set up a camera under his desk to record them in the classroom. Now that teacher has been removed from the school while the Los Angeles Unified School District launches an investigation into the allegations. more ›

LAUSD kids will get schooled today in the serious consequences of bullying as 6,000 of them attend a screening of the movie "Bully" at the Nokia Theater this morning. KTLA reports that the event, sponsored by the LA Fund, will also be attended by a couple of Disney stars (because how else would they get the youth to pay attention), Mayor Villaraigosa and LAUSD superintendent John Deasy. more ›

After what was beginning to seem like endless allegations of sexual abuse in local schools, LAUSD announced yesterday that it's revamped its policy for letting parents know when a teacher is being investigated. The district will now inform parents within 72 hours if an educator is removed for sexual misconduct. more ›

Gabriela Cortez, a high school Spanish teacher at Roosevelt High School, was charged in connection with bringing underage high school boys home to have sex with her. more ›

An unidentified male teacher at a Wilmington elementary school is under investigation for alleged "inappropriate touching" of a student. The investigation of the educator at George de la Torre Jr. Elementary, in the Los Angeles Unified School District, began Friday, according to City News Service. more ›

Pink slips, or "preliminary layoff notices" went out around the state yesterday. Local districts are are among those who sent off the most, but the Los Angeles Unified School District takes the cake: They sent out 11,700 notices, which is over half of the total sent state-wide. more ›

As LAUSD faces more and more budget cuts, the school board will consider cutting an after-school music program for kids called Beyond the Bell. The district-wide program, reports NBC Los Angeles, has reached 170,000 children over the years. They have music lessons and do their homework, and the program also serves as a safe place for kids to go who otherwise wouldn't have adult supervision. more ›

The slew of local teacher misconduct allegations in recent months has shocked not only the Southland but the entire nation. Today, the Los Angeles Board of Education will vote on proposals that would make it faster and cheaper for the school district to fire teachers and notify parents sooner when an educator has been charged with a crime. more ›

For the past few weeks, the LAUSD has been furiously going through its personnel files trying to find any reports of teacher misconduct that they might have missed in the past. What's it doing with those files? It's sending them onto the state commission on teacher credentialing. more ›

Officials with the Los Angeles Unified School District insist that the fights that broke out during the Wednesday morning snack break at Carson Senior High School had nothing to do with racial tensions. In fact, according to Los Angeles School Police Chief Steven Zipperman, the Carson "campus has no current racial issues." more ›

The LA Times reported today that compared to proportions from other school districts across the country, black students at LAUSD are suspended far more often. Reporter Howard Blume notes that in the 2009-2010 school year -- the most recent year for which statistics are available -- 9% of LAUSD students were black, but they accounted for 26% of overall suspensions. more ›

A male teacher was removed from a kindergarten classroom at Lassen Elementary School in North Hills for "inappropriate behavior," parents learned in a letter that was sent home from Principal Dana Carter, KTLA reports. The teacher, whose name hasn't been released, was moved to a non-teaching facility, according to NBC Los Angeles. more ›

Wasn't it fun to be in elementary school? Remember the four primary lessons: reading writing, 'rithmetic, and being blindfolded? Oh, you didn't have that last one? more ›

Right now teachers' contracts require the district to toss out anything in their files older than four years old that doesn't result in any discipline. So if a parent makes a serious allegation or a principal includes a warning or concern about a teacher, but nothing comes of it after four years, those notes are tossed out or put in an "expired" file. more ›

The District Attorney's office passed up a chance to extradite a former LAUSD and Inglewood substitute teacher who had been accused of sexual misconduct on the job and had been charged with indecent exposure and possessing child pornography. more ›

A local student's guardian has filed a lawsuit on a teen's behalf against the Los Angeles Unified School District, after the teen bit into her cafeteria burrito and got a big metal mouthful of thermometer. more ›

An unidentified teacher who had been working at Crenshaw High School has resigned while being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department, reports City News Service. However, what no one at the Los Angeles Unified School District or the LAPD will say is if this teacher has been accused of any sexual misconduct. more ›

George Hernandez was a sub working for the LAUSD from 2003 -2007. During his employment he was investigated three times for alleged sexual misconduct, but did not lose his credential and was never arrested. So what's a sub to do? He goes to work for another district, and is now "on the lam" and wanted for allegedly sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl. more ›

The LAUSD Superintendent sent out a message to all 84,000 employees in the district as a part of a program to re-educate its staff about child abuse in the wake of the Miramonte Elementary School scandals. more ›

The Los Angeles Unified School District broke a state law "when it failed to notify a state agency responsible for teacher credentialing of the suspension," of Mark Berndt, the Miramonte Elementary School teacher who allegedly spoon-fed students his own semen among other lewd acts. more ›

Advocates of art, adult, and early childhood instruction received some encouraging news today while the Los Angeles Unified School District board opted to delay the adoption of a controversial budget item that would wipe out three significant branches of education offered in the schools. more ›