Adolfo Guzman-Lopez

President Barack Obama has appointed Cal State Dominguez Hills university president Mildred Garcia to a new commission tasked with improving the educational performance of Latinos in this country.

Budget cuts in recent years have forced teachers to do more with a lot less. One program recently offered public school art classes the ability to use free, downloadable lesson plans created by “art star” contemporary artists, led by one who grew up and works in Los Angeles - Mark Bradford.

Many people vow not to get anywhere near the 405 Freeway between the 101 and the 10 during next week’s shutdown. But what about people who live and own businesses in the eye of that construction hurricane?

The combative leader of United Teachers Los Angeles steps down as president after his maximum two terms as president. Thursday was his last day. The union chief spoke with KPCC before he took his office pictures down.

The Democrats’ latest state budget, which was passed on Tuesday, would slash $650 million each from the California State University and the University of California systems. Those reductions, which come on top of hundreds of millions of dollars the state cut from the systems in recent years, might force the shortening of the academic year, and keep UC Riverside's new medical school from opening.

The Getty announced Monday it’s become the first museum to join Google’s image recognition application – known as Goggles. The Brentwood institution says it wants to offer patrons and art lovers a richer art experience.

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.