Adolfo Guzman-Lopez

At its regular meeting Tuesday, L.A. Unified’s school board made several key decisions, including the revocation of six public school charters.

United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan got an earful from Los Angeles high school students Friday at an assembly where he pitched the idea of pursuing a career in teaching.

United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is in Los Angeles for the NBA All Star game.

The seven members of L.A. Unified’s board of education debated Tuesday budget cuts that include preliminary layoff notices to about 7,000 district educators. Superintendent Ramon Cortines told the board he’s worried these cuts will affect district-wide academic improvements.

Maria Altmann, the Los Angeles woman who successfully reclaimed five Gustav Klimt paintings that Nazis had looted from her family in Austria, died Monday.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty, and a wealthy record executive announced on Monday that a nearly complete archive of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe is coming to LA.

Thousands of native Egyptians have called Southern California home for decades. Many of them are members of the Coptic Orthodox Church and left Egypt to escape persecution by Muslim extremists. Some outside a Coptic church in northeast Los Angeles, have definite opinions about the direction their home country should head.

The marriage appears to be going well; the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conductor Gustavo Dudamel have agreed to add another four years to his contract.

During a speech at Loyola Marymount University Wednesday night, incoming L.A. Unified Superintendent John Deasy laid out his priorities for the 650,000-student school district.

The drug cartel violence in Mexico and Colombia has inspired one Los Angeles artist to create a series of large paintings she plans to exhibit this spring. The work depicts the lives of some women who’ve become involved with notorious drug cartel leaders.

For the first time since Gov. Jerry Brown announced $500,000 million in proposed cuts to the California State University, trustees of the system began the budget-cutting process Tuesday at their scheduled meeting in Long Beach.

South Korea’s ambassador to the United States, Han Duk-soo, says a proposed free trade agreement between the two countries would create 70,000 jobs in the U.S. The trade proposal - still to be approved by Congress - has supporters and detractors in organized labor.