Adolfo Guzman-Lopez

A new report out Thursday sheds light on how frequent military deployments affect the troops’ school-age children.

The L.A. Unified School District cut the ribbon Wednesday on a new school named after a man long considered to be an elder statesman among United States Latinos... whose roots are firmly planted in Los Angeles.

CSU's Board of Trustees have canceled its Dec. 5 meeting on presidential compensation as the threat of more protests continues to loom.

Students at Southland universities are celebrating Thanksgiving in a wide variety of ways. Officials at Pomona College opened their homes Thursday to any students who for one reason or another opted to stay put for Thanksgiving. At Pomona College, 1,500 students live on campus, and about 100 students RSVP'd for Dean of Students Miriam Feldblum's Thanksgiving dinner.

A group of survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide are in Los Angeles to learn over the next month how the Shoah Foundation at USC has documented and indexed its collection of testimonies from Holocaust survivors. The group will then return to Rwanda with the knowledge as they set out to record their country’s own stockpile of mass killings.

News of a likely one and a half billion dollar midyear cut to California public schools is sinking in across the state. While these trigger cuts may take a few months to materialize, KPCC’s Adolfo Guzman-Lopez reports some districts aren’t worried.

Violence interrupted the Cal State University Board of Trustees meeting today as trustees were poised to vote on a tuition increase. The trustees reconvened elsewhere and voted to approve the $500 increase for undergraudates for fall 2012, a 9 percent hike, bringing tuition to nearly $6,000. With fees, students will pay about $7,000 per year.

Three days before a planned faculty strike at two campuses, California State University’s chancellor reiterated in a teleconference this morning that the university system can’t afford to offer professors a pay raise.

A report out Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union alleges teenagers’ privacy rights are often violated by public school administrators who confiscate student cell phones.

The Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers union have been unable to find acceptable common ground in a contentious program after a November first negotiating deadline.

The union that represents faculty, librarians and other workers at the California State University (CSU) system today approved a one day strike at CSU Dominguez Hills in southern L.A. County and Cal State East Bay in Northern California. The strike is scheduled for Nov. 17.

Some 350 Los Angeles Unified educators attended a first-of-its-kind symposium Wednesday on how schools can improve student behavior.