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If you want to send your child to a magnet, dual-language, or charter school next year, here’s what you need to know.
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Despite widespread concerns about immigration enforcement, Los Angeles Unified students returned to class today, eager to get to see their friends and favorite teachers again.
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More than 4,000 people have been arrested across the region since June and it’s still unclear how the threat of detention may impact whether students show up to school and if they do, what type of support they might need.
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School buses drive to and from about 90% of Los Angeles Unified schools, but less than 10% of students are onboard.
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A teenage student with disabilities was handcuffed by federal agents Monday while accompanying another student for registration.
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The district is collaborating with law enforcement, labor leaders and local elected leaders to get the word out that students will be safe at school.
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The second largest school district in the country reports that 67% of its 1,300 school buses rely on non-diesel fuels, including propane, natural gas and electricity.
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The efforts are funded largely by a 2022 state allocation and other grants. The goal: protect students from pollution and heat, and teach ecology.
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Charter advocates had sued the district over a recent policy that discourages co-locations on some kinds of campuses.
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Los Angeles Unified leaders designated millions in taxpayer dollars to pay for pouches, lockers and other materials to implement a more restrictive cellphone policy.
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Superintendent Carvalho says the $110.5 million cuts target immigrant communities and vulnerable students.
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What started as a strategy to integrate campuses can now feel like an opaque competition to get into a select group of schools.
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