Caroline Champlin

L.A. Unified board members are finally set to discuss how to cut 35% of the L.A. School Police budget and where to reinvest that money.

School board members are finally set to discuss how to cut 35% of the LAUSD school police budget -- and where to reinvest that money.

An L.A. city councilmember wants to start a lawsuit to force L.A. Unified to reopen campuses, but the city attorney says that's too adversarial.

LAUSD schools could be legally eligible to reopen campuses this month. But Superintendent Austin Beutner says he wants to see more than downward trending cases.

LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner and school board members say Councilmember Joe Buscaino could work harder to help the district reopen in-person classes, instead of proposing a lawsuit.

L.A. City Councilmember Joe Buscaino says he’ll propose a measure directing the city attorney to file suit against the nation’s second-largest school district.

As L.A. County eases restrictions, school districts in El Segundo, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach will offer hybrid classes for the lowest grade levels.

Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer says COVID-19 cases could drop low enough to bring some students back on campus, but LAUSD teachers say they want more protection first.

The L.A. County Health Department is taking LAUSD up on the school district's offer to turn campuses into vaccine centers and hopes to start providing doses in a matter of weeks.

Despite objecting to the state’s funding stipulations, LAUSD still plans to submit a plan for reopening schools to avoid forfeiting millions of dollars.

Vaccine scarcity aside, Beuter says months of negotiations with the LA County Department of Public Health have held up his proposal.

The author of the poem “The Hill We Climb,” recited today at President Biden’s inauguration, got her start at WriteGirl, an L.A.-based non-profit that helps teen girls hone writing skills.