Adolfo Guzman-Lopez

It’s the middle of the day. It’s hot. East San Gabriel Valley hot. On a curb outside Blandford Elementary School a parked bus, painted sky-blue, seems to pulsate as you open the door and walk up the steps.

In an unprecedented move, the Los Angeles Unified school board is set to close down six charter schools involved in a test cheating scandal last year. The board’s convening a public hearing on the proposal today.

Virginia Fields has died unexpectedly. She was a noted curator at the L.A. County Museum of Art whose exhibitions traveled around the country.

Three months after producers fired her as director of Broadway’s $65 million musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” Julie Taymor is set to talk about the experience for the first time at a Los Angeles theater conference on Saturday. The talk, which is not open to the public, will be hosted by Roger Copeland, an Oberlin College theater professor.

After 35 years of teaching, Orange Unified's Peg Benzie retires this summer. For more than a decade she's played a key role in her school district's successful science program.

For years, middle- and upper-middle-class parents in parts of Los Angeles Unified have sent their children to private schools, charter schools and schools outside the district. However, a nascent dual-language program is attracting some of them back to neighborhood schools. District administrators voted Tuesday to protect hundreds of dual-language teachers from being let go in the hope that the trickle of returning parents will develop into a stream.

The L.A. Unified School District voted Tuesday to protect its dual language program teachers from layoffs.

Some parents of students at L.A. Unified’s new arts high school are upset that the school board’s moving forward with plans to name the campus after recently retired superintendent Ramon Cortines. The school board’s set to approve the naming Tuesday.

It’s taken 12 years for one Southland college student to reach her bachelor’s degree graduation ceremony tomorrow. During that time she’s been down for the count but has never thought about throwing in the towel.

Many people who drop out of high school don’t get a second chance to participate in graduation ceremonies and obtain a diploma. One Los Angeles teen who fought for that opportunity will realize it today and she credits the self-confidence and leadership skills she learned through a campus art club.

He's not a household name, but East L.A. singer/songwriter Ruben Guevara has been a key figure on the southern California music scene for 50 years. He's sung with Frank Zappa, composed film scores, and written about the Doo wop, R&B, and rock created by southern California's Latino musicians. He’s also been an important influence for many of those musicians. And Guevara recently marked his 50th anniversary in the music business with a new CD.

Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad has tapped former Marine Heath Fox for the number two post at the art museum he’s building in downtown L.A.