Kyle Stokes
Former Senior Reporter, K-12 Education
(he/him)
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Pasadena school board members say dwindling enrollment numbers gave them little choice beyond closing three of the district’s 17 elementary schools.
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Proposal calls for a fourth year of high school math or a related course like coding, personal finance or a lab science for admission to the Cal State system.
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Four years ago, dissatisfied parents at 20th Street Elementary School were so unhappy with the L.A. Unified School District's management of the school that they threatened to invoke California's "parent trigger" law.
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Finding the right classroom and getting to know new teachers were among the typical first-day concerns at Alta California Elementary School.
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El Paso Shooting Heightens L.A. Latinos' Fears: 'Some White Supremacist Is Going To Come … Shoot Us'A former gang member says the massacre scared people in L.A. -- and could drive young Latinos to make bad decisions.
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What's all the fuss, anyway? Charter schools, explained.
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The education of about a half-million children in the L.A. Unified School District relies on a huge bureaucracy. Since coming on board as LAUSD's superintendent last year, Austin Beutner has been looking for ways to re-imagine that bureaucracy.
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On Tuesday, May 14, voters in northeast and southeast Los Angeles will elect a new representative to fill an open seat on the L.A. Unified School Board.
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The Office of the Inspector General at the Los Angeles Unified School District is the type of government agency that any taxpayer — not just those with kids in school — would want working well.
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It’s been a month since L.A. Unified school teachers and their union reached an agreement ending their six-day strike.
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