Carla Javier

Teachers and students around Los Angeles are using the citywide art collaboration, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, in lessons and projects.

It gives the patients chance to interact with nurses and volunteers — and to express their feelings.

The version of the plan passed by the House would eliminate the Educator Expense Deduction. The senate version, as proposed, would double it.

Robots, floating houses, and rocket shoes: These are just some of the things the fifth graders at Huntington Park Elementary imagine will exist in the future.

The students didn't write essays to show what they learned. Instead, they created art that expressed how they felt. Now, they're sharing it with the public.

Olga Sinclair taught a painting class for 200 students — in the middle of a downtown Los Angeles street.

At one El Monte alternative school, teacher Learsi Martinez creates a learning environment where students who have lost loved ones can share their experiences.

Administrators hope learning and practicing the arts will help the TK-1 students with oral language and social-emotional development.

Educators, administrators, artists and more are working to test new approaches to making arts instruction accessible to all students in L.A. County.

The public school district is offering dance workshops through a unique partnership with a local charter school, California School of the Arts-San Gabriel Valley.

It takes more than just a star to put on a show: there’s a lot of behind-the-scenes work, too. One program teaches students the skills to get technical work in the entertainment industry.

Local school districts – including LAUSD and Saugus Union in Santa Clarita – are reviewing policies for non-district individuals who work with students after a music specialist allegedly contaminated PVC flutes that were given to school children.