Adolfo Guzman-Lopez

City of Los Angeles and Getty officials unveiled yesterday plans for a $9 million visitor center for a long-hidden, historic mural in downtown L.A.’s Olvera Street.

Jaime Escalante, the Los Angeles educator who inspired legions of East L.A. youth to excel in math and in life, died today in Sacramento. He was 79.

Teachers are giving mixed reviews to a cost-cutting proposal the Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers union announced during the weekend. The plan, still subject to approval by the union's rank and file, would shorten the current and following school year to help close a state funding deficit.

California educators say school districts have told about 20,000 teachers that by summer they may lose their jobs. One public school instructor tries to distract herself from the prospect of a layoff by concentrating on her work.

Computer hackers are ready to throw every kind of virus and malicious software at business IT departments this weekend. It’s part of a simulation for a university competition meant to prepare students for the very real and ugly world of cyber protection.

Parents spoke passionately today against a new Los Angeles Unified School District policy that will drastically cut back the number of students allowed to enroll in schools outside the district.

At a meeting this morning Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs managers told employees that the agency will enact serious staff and facilities cuts. The aim is to help L.A. city government close a nearly $500 million deficit next fiscal year.

Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs chief Olga Garay has confirmed to KPCC that she’s moving forward with layoffs and job cuts that’ll slash the department’s workforce by almost half.

A 35-member L.A. Unified School District panel meeting tonight expects to forward recommendations to the district’s board of education. If they go into effect, they’d significantly change the way the district evaluates and pays its teachers.

In the next couple of weeks Salvadoran groups in Southern California plan to commemorate the assassination 30 years ago of Oscar Romero, that country’s Roman Catholic archbishop. His death marked the beginning of a bloody civil war that led to the emigration of hundreds of thousands of refugees to the United States.

The Washington, D.C.-based National Trust for Historic Preservation announced today the L.A. County recipients of a dozen grants to preserve historic treasures for future generations.

A free exhibit in Santa Monica sheds light on an educational model begun in Italy 60 years ago that’s taken root in the Southland.