Adolfo Guzman-Lopez

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.

L.A. Unified School District administrators say they’re taking steps to possibly revoke a charter school they approved several years ago after an audit uncovered fraud of nearly $3 million.

Los Angeles Unified School District auditors accused administrators of a Canoga Park charter school of gross mismanagement and fraud that could total nearly $3 million.

Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad announced today that he’ll build a $100 million museum to house his art collection on Grand Avenue. Broad’s statement ends speculation that he’d locate it in Santa Monica or Beverly Hills.

The president of the one and a half million member American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, visited a Head Start program in Watts to highlight the importance of early childhood education.

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten spoke to teachers and administrators at the Kedren Head Start Center in Watts. She said the L.A. Times is wrong to release test score data from thousands of L.A. Unified teachers later this month in its "value added" analysis. Weingarten also called for lawmakers to stay away from early childhood education budgets.