Kyle Stokes

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.

Every day, L.A. Unified middle- and high school staff select students at random to be searched for drugs and weapons.

The results are in from the standardized tests students in California public schools took last spring — and overall, kids across the state scored a little better this year than they did in 2017.

The contract dispute has United Teachers Los Angeles members ready for a possible strike, which could come as soon as this year if the two sides don't reach a deal.

Los Angeles Unified schools superintendent Austin Beutner has called for removing the district’s weakest teachers from the classroom.

Los Angeles Unified schools Superintendent Austin Beutner wants to talk about more than the contract negotiations with the district’s teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles.

L.A. Unified school teachers are voting all this week whether to authorize a strike as a war of words between their union and the district escalates. The school district filed a formal complaint against United Teachers Los Angeles on Tuesday, accusing them of bargaining in bad faith.