Adolfo Guzman-Lopez

Tuesday is the first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, and K-8 school Sinai Akiba Academy is bursting with preparations to mark the holiday and mark a significant transition in the school's history.

The federal government announced Friday that California’s in line for $52 million to improve its early childhood education programs.

State funding cuts announced Tuesday would eliminate L.A. Unified’s busing budget for the rest of the school year. That is causing consternation among parents.

The governor’s office may announce $2 billion in midyear cuts to state-funded agencies on Thursday. That’s likely to reduce state support for public education at every level from kindergarten through college.

Los Angeles Unified’s teachers’ union hosted a ceremony Thursday for the nearly 200 teachers who earned certification this year from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

For nine years Los Angeles has not granted new permits for murals on private walls that face public spaces. L.A. city officials Wednesday released proposed changes to city law that would lift the ban on artistic murals.

Relatives, friends, and colleagues filled a Pasadena auditorium Friday night to pay tribute to education and immigrant rights activist Raul Borbon. Raul Borbon died on Tuesday of complications from cancer. He was 56.

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.