A 32-year-old man was arrested yesterday for allegedly exposing himself to school children at Esther Walter Elementary in Stanton, Orange County. 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 ›

On Tuesday night during Fullerton Union High School's annual "Mr. Fullerton" pageant, a "semi-humorous event hosted by the ASB for senior boys," one participant's reply to the interview question got him booted out of the competition. 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 ›

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 ›

Congratulations, local students: you may be attending school in an historic building. L.A. Now reports that Hollywood High School will be added to the National Register of Historic Places later this month. 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 ›

Thanks to Christmas Day falling on a Sunday this year, today is a legal holiday, and that means things are quiet in Los Angeles, with many offices and services closed or limited. 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 ›

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 ›

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 high school and an elementary school have been closed temporarily after two trains collided in the Colton area, reports KTLA. The accident involved a train running east-west and another running north-south, and took place at about 2:15 this morning. Six cars jumped the tracks, including three carrying carrying ferric or ferric chloride and hot asphalt. 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 ›

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 ›

A creeper in Burbank targeted a young girl on her way to school today. According to a statement released by the LAPD, the 11-year-old was walking west on Jeffries Ave. at about 7:40 a.m., when a man in a parked Honda called out to her. She looked over to see him jerking off in the vehicle, wearing a mustard colored shirt and no pants at all. more ›

In an effort to foster perfect attendance rates, schools across the nation are bribing students with fancy rewards like cars and iPods. California's Santa Ana Unified School District has been practicing this method and achieved positive results. 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 ›

It wasn't his policy, and he doesn't really like it: Los Angeles Unified School District John Deasy is sending the district's lame new less-homework policy to detention until it can shape up and be better for their students. The LAUSD's controversial homework policy went into effect this summer, and mandates that homework represent no more than 10% of a student's total grade. more ›

A water sprinkler malfunction on Saturday at Loren Miller Elementary flooded 13 classrooms, ruined countless books and destroyed two dozen computers, reported school officials, according to LA Now. more ›

In the face of a $408-million shortfall, the Los Angeles Board of Education approved its final budget on Thursday, "bridging a multimillion-dollar deficit in the state's largest school district with pay cuts and the layoffs of about 3,000 people, including some teachers, counselors and office workers," according to the LA Times. more ›

If you thought you heard a loud cheer in youthful voices erupt across the city this morning, well, it's because the Los Angeles Unified School District has just put in place a new policy that limits homework to just 10% of a student's grade. more ›

Blame it on the chronic...truancy. A 43-year-old Long Beach mom has been arrested because her son has missed more than 50 days of class at Washington Middle School. "[Emila] Zamora was arrested Monday after several failed attempts to address her son's truancy, including five meetings with officials, according to prosecutors," explains KTLA. more ›

When the Los Angeles Unified School District's dairy contract expires on June 30, superintendent John Deasy plans to recommend spilling flavored milk -- chocolate and strawberry -- off the menus of 650,000 meals served daily by LAUSD. Currently, 60% of the milk consumed by L.A. Unified students is flavored, according to the LA Times. more ›

While we can leave the future of foreskin up to city government (thanks San Francisco and Santa Monica), it appears that what our children can and cannot do with their mobile devices while in class will be determined not on a case-by-case basis or by school principals but in Sacramento -- by the California State Legislature. more ›

Several dozen protests are being held statewide today to spotlight the perils of cuts made to funding for public education. Locally, such protests are taking place in Long Beach, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Valley Village, Van Nuys and elsewhere in Los Angeles, according to ABC7. more ›

West Adams Preparatory is the MLA Partner School in the Los Angeles Unified School District where chef and "Food Revolution"-ary Jamie Oliver wasn't allowed to even peek in the cafeteria. However, it is also the school that employed 53-year-old Bradley Ratcliff as the head Varsity football coach and Dean of Discipline; Ratcliff, arrested in February, has just entered a plea of guilty today on a felony charge of possession of child pornography. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department is moving away from their "tough love" practice of truancy sweeps during the school day to working on giving students encouragement to attend school, according to the LA Times. Rather than write tardy students tickets as they straggle their way to the hallowed halls of academia, those students will first be asked "if they have legitimate explanations for not being in class." more ›

An Orange County substitute teacher was accused yesterday afternoon of being drunk on the job, and an investigation is now under way by the Sheriff's Department. The teacher, a woman whose identity has not been released, was covering a 6th grade dance class at Carl Hankey in Mission Viejo, a K-8 school in the Capistrano Unified School District, explains KTLA. more ›

A 17-year-old Riverside County high school student was arrested Wednesday morning after threatening a teacher at his former school armed with a shotgun, knives and ammunition. The teen appeared at Lakeside High School in Lake Elsinore around 7:30 a.m. in the classroom of a former teacher who was able to alert another teacher. The teen, whose name hasn't been released because he is a minor, was quickly detained by police and booked into juvenile hall without incident, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. more ›