Kyle Stokes
Former Senior Reporter, K-12 Education
(he/him)
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Federal agents raided the offices of Celerity Educational Group — which runs a network of charter schools both in Southern California and Louisiana — on Wednesday. -
It will be up to the Trump administration to determine whether California should face consequences for moving ahead as planned with its new statewide science tests. -
The head of the nation's largest teachers union chose Los Angeles as the venue to deliver a message to President-elect Donald Trump: leave public schools alone. -
With L.A. Unified leaders pushing for "decentralization," the board could vote to study overhauling its central office and moving out of its downtown headquarters. -
A team of researchers figured out which California schools were using which math textbooks. When comparing that list to the schools' test scores, one book stood out. -
If an impasse over which science assessment California students should take escalates further, it could put the state's federal education funding at risk. -
The state wanted L.A. Unified to outline another $245 million to spend on English learners, low-income students and foster children. LAUSD now has a plan to meet that demand. -
A powerhouse coalition wants L.A. Unified campuses to retool to become community centers, neighborhood gathering spots and hubs for social services. -
Three months after voting for a start date later in August, the L.A. Unified school board has reversed itself. They'll keep their current "early start" in 2017-18. -
Candidates have already raised almost twice as much as had been raised at this time four years ago, when these three L.A. Unified School Board seats were last up.
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