Adolfo Guzman-Lopez

The Hammer Museum’s show in the “Pacific Standard Time” series focuses on art and black Los Angeles between 1960 and 1980. Wednesday at 7 p.m. the museum’s presenting specially commissioned multimedia performance "Twenty Twenty" that’ll take viewers onto the dance floor and into melody-filled clubs to showcase African-American music in L.A. during the same time period.

In the last couple of years, undocumented young people have stood up in public as never before to lobby for the Dream Act, the federal proposal that would legalize their status in the United States. While many have lost hope that the measure will ever become law, some of these teens and young adults have organized poetry readings in L.A. on Wednesday and in Santa Ana Friday to call attention to their concerns.

Three California public school districts and two educators' groups sued Gov. Jerry Brown Wednesday. They claim that he and other elected officials unconstitutionally yanked $2 billion from the state's public schools this year.

The Getty kicked off Tuesday a six-month series of art exhibits and performances with 82 partner organizations that include the region’s largest museums and small galleries. The series is called “Pacific Standard Time” and documents art-making in Southern California between 1945 and 1980. It includes the big names in Los Angeles art such as Ed Ruscha and Ed Kienholz as well as little known artists who left a lasting imprint on the regional and national art scene.

Gov. Jerry Brown has hundreds of bills to sign or veto in less than two weeks. Educators say they’re watching the way he acts on education bills, because the governor’s offered few specific ideas about how he wants to improve public education.

Three far-reaching California state education bills are on their way to the governor. If they become law, public schools would offer more classes to fulfill University of California requirements, teachers would get training to better prepare students for jobs and the state would replace its Academic Performance Index (API).

Cal State and the California Department of Education first offered the Early Assessment Program test six years ago. In the first year, 12 percent of high school juniors tested ready for college math. Cal State Chancellor Charles Reed says that percentage has risen just a few points this year.

A new study indicates that for the first time, young Latinos are the largest minority group on United States college campuses.

Los Angeles artist June Wayne died Tuesday. She’s credited with helping revive printmaking and lithography in the United States.

The only Southland museum that focuses on Latin American art has a new man in charge. Cuban-born Stuart Ashman is set to take the helm of the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach in two weeks.

Advocates of charter schools in California will get $15 million from the foundation established by the founders of the Wal-Mart stores.

The results of California’s most important public school tests are out today. Educators released the annual public school standardized test scores at a San Fernando Valley high school. They show a slight improvement in English and math test scores statewide.