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Nearly 300 high-polluting school buses will be taken off the streets in SoCal school districts

Air quality regulator South Coast AQMD is swapping out old school buses with electric ones.

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A yellow school bus with green wheels is a parked next to several other buses. The side of the bus reads Los Angeles Unified and there are palm trees in the background.

Has student improvement plateaued in California? New Dashboard shows modest gains

Test scores went up last year for California K-12 students. But chronic absenteeism and English learner progress rates remained stagnant.

Children sitting in desks in a classroom. Some wear masks and a few raise their hands.

As tuition keeps increasing, UC students want a bigger say on the Board of Regents

To increase student representation, UC student leaders are pushing for the second seat to also have voting power.

A young man wearing a light blue sits at a table cloaked in a royal blue tablecloth. To his right sits a young woman wearing a black jacket and orange blouse. They are both smiling and on the table are skinny. long black microphones, bottles of water and a laptop

California schools now offer free preschool for 4-year-olds. Here's what kids really learn in it

California has made a new grade, transitional kindergarten, available for four-year-olds. LAist reporters spent a day in three schools to find out what students do in class.

Five small children laugh as they chase each other around a jungle gym, painted in primary colors.

His students suddenly started getting A’s. Did a Google AI tool go too far?

A Chrome browser tool features a movable bubble that provides information without typing a prompt, spurring a rise in AI cheating on tests.

A person's hands are placed on a black laptop on a desk. Another person sitting next to them has their hands clasped on the desk.

Judge says Education Dept. partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

A federal judge says the Trump administration "overplayed its hand" by inserting partisan language into workers' out-of-office autoreplies.

Report: LAUSD, PUSD need more money, clearer guidance from California for fire recovery

A state school advisory agency finds ongoing funding is needed to support public schools damaged by January’s wildfires.

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There is a burned structure and charred metal beams in the foreground and in the background a lime green building reads Aveson.

The Trump administration canceled a top education award. This LA school is celebrating anyway

Lucille J. Smith Elementary was one of 31 California schools to be nominated as a National Blue Ribbon School.

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A group of girls with varying skin tones wear matching purple skirts and tops with black long sleeves underneath. They all hold gold pom poms out to the side. A banner in the background reads Lucille Smith is a... BLUE Ribbon School!

Educators rally for release of LA student held in immigration detention for three months

The Reseda high schooler has been in federal immigration detention since August.

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A group of people with varying skin tones. Many of them wear olive green shirts. Several people hold signs. One reads Free Benjamin Now/ ICE Out Of LA.

LAUSD will offer dinners to students as government shutdown delays SNAP benefits

Hundreds of Los Angeles Unified School District schools will start serving supper to anyone 18 and under.

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