Adolfo Guzman-Lopez

Two years ago the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles was in such bad financial shape its board raised the possibility of closing the world-renowned art institution. Museum officials say now that they’ve pushed their budget into the black.

There are more than 13,000 students in the Los Angeles Unified School District classified as “homeless.” Their families have lost nearly everything. Today a bank gave a donation to a district program that works to help those students continue their education.

Los Angeles’ Mexican consulate and Mexican avocado growers have invited Mexicans and Mexican Americans aged one to 71 years old for a photo shoot tomorrow morning at Plaza Olvera.

It was all hands on deck as Los Angeles Unified’s top administrators visited school district campuses on the first day of school today

The California constitution guarantees that public schools will provide a free education to students. The American Civil Liberties Union alleges in a lawsuit filed today that dozens of school districts violate this promise by creating a system of “Pay to Learn” schools.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit today alleging that dozens of California school districts violate the state’s guarantee of a free public education by charging fees to students and their parents.

Many of Southern California’s Salvadoran immigrants arrived about three decades ago, driven here by a bloody civil war in El Salvador between leftist guerrillas and the country’s U.S.-supported right-wing government. Poet William Archila is one of a handful of Salvadoran American writers beginning to document his compatriots’ immigrant experience.

Ground breaking took place today for an addition to downtown L.A.’s oldest thoroughfare. A $9 million interpretive center on Olvera Street will tell the story of a famous painter and a mural the city of Los Angeles whitewashed soon after he created it nearly 80 years ago.

The largest proportion of this country’s two million Salvadoran and Salvadoran Americans live in Southern California. A growing number of young Salvadoran American writers are adding another immigrant chapter to the canon of American literature.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger played a “kindergarten cop” on film. With the stroke of a pen, he could significantly change who attends kindergarten in California.

El Salvador's president, Mauricio Funes, is in the Southland today and tomorrow to connect with the largest concentration of Salvadorans outside his country.

More than 50,000 L.A. Unified students will feel the effects this month of a $9 million cut to the school district’s transportation budget.