Kyle Stokes

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.

Finding the right classroom and getting to know new teachers were among the typical first-day concerns at Alta California Elementary School.

A former gang member says the massacre scared people in L.A. -- and could drive young Latinos to make bad decisions.

What's all the fuss, anyway? Charter schools, explained.

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.

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.

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.

It’s been a month since L.A. Unified school teachers and their union reached an agreement ending their six-day strike.

On the day Los Angeles Unified School District teachers went on strike, Mayor Eric Garcetti suggested resolving the dispute might require a small "leap of faith" by school district officials.

Los Angeles teachers union members have made a class-size reduction central to their demands during their strike against the L.A. Unified School District.

Los Angeles Unified School District teachers walked off the job today for their first strike in 30 years. While they marched and walked picket lines outside, skeleton crews of administrators and aides inside kept schools running as best they could.

When students in dance classes at Van Nuys High School learned that their teacher, Reesa Partida, had lost her home in the Woolsey Fire last week, they sprang into action. The students set up a page for Partida on the crowdfunding website GoFundMe.