Dorian Merina

Hundreds of L.A.-area parents are trying to help families tackle gun violence by focusing on reducing domestic violence and school bullying.

Wages for workers in early education remain strikingly low when compared to other teachers, two new studies find.

Teen pregnancy has declined, but 25 of every 1,000 teens in LA County still become mothers. Only half of those moms will finish school by age 22. Here's the story of one who did.

The end of a contract between a non-profit early education advocate and a group that allocates Prop 10 tobacco tax funds leaves many pre-schools with uncertain futures.

As California's transitional kindergarten program has expanded, more schools are providing all TK-classrooms rather than mixed TK and Kindergarten classes, study finds.

Los Angeles Unified School District's Board of Education Tuesday is more than doubling the number of schools offering transitional kindergarten for all 4-year-olds at the district's low-income schools.

Scores of new preschool seats could open in L.A. under the new state budget, but the gains represent just a fraction of the slots that have been lost since the recession.

The final budget plan rejected an initial proposal to consolidate all of the state's early childhood funding into a block grant.

While LAPD officers have largely stopped shooting into moving cars, LA County sheriff's deputies have continued the practice despite policy changes.