Kyle Stokes

Los Angeles' historic Roosevelt High School will get a long-overdue rebuild of its aging campus. But the campus' most historic buildings will be torn down.

If you're one of the 41,000 students who relies on a Los Angeles Unified School District bus to get to class, start making a backup plan to get to school next week — and even if you're not, plan to pack a lunch.

L.A. Unified School District's next superintendent, Austin Beutner, acknowledged he was an "unconventional choice."

Austin Beutner is a former banker with no history working as an educator. But the newly appointed superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District he does have a history with the school system.

Austin Beutner — a former investment banker who, having already made his millions, has immersed himself in the civic life of Los Angeles in recent years — will be the next superintendent of the L.A. Unified School District.

Students still learning English in the L.A. Unified School District are becoming proficient in their new language at record levels. Statewide, the numbers are also up.

The Los Angeles Unified School Board is in the final stages of selecting a new superintendent. Here's what you need to know about the search.

L.A. Unified School Board member Ref Rodriguez faces a long list of troubles. And it’s not just the criminal charges connected to his 2015 election campaign. New documents raise questions about whether red flags in Rodriguez’s alleged actions should have been caught.

Incoming owner Patrick Soon-Shiang told the staff the move came after they failed to reach a deal with the Canadian developer that owns the historic Times-Mirror Square complex.

L.A. Unified officials will use nearly a dozen new factors to rank schools by their level of student need. Among the new metrics: grad rates, test scores, how many fights a school sees and even how well incoming students fared academically in their old schools.