Kyle Stokes

Deadlines and winter break loom large as LAUSD and the union try to avoid a strike.

They shelled out $62 million but it wasn't enough to win the race for governor and state schools superintendent.

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.

Not everything in this world is awful.

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

The provision union leaders object to would lock in larger class sizes than the union wants and grant LAUSD officials even greater latitude to increase class sizes in the future.

Here's what's involved and how long it might take.

Reading the tea leaves on what's really behind the release of Austin Beutner's calendars by the teacher's union that's in the middle of contentious contract negotiations.

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.

Most students still fall short of the state's expectations in both English and math -- and racial "achievement gaps" remain wide.