Kyle Stokes
Former Senior Reporter, K-12 Education
(he/him)
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Could 2017 be the most expensive campaign to date for the Los Angeles Unified School Board? It's possible if the early pace of outside spending in the race keeps up. -
L.A. Unified School Board candidates are often pigeonholed as the "pro-charter" or "pro-teachers union." Some candidates embrace these labels. Others chafe at them.
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In deep-blue L.A., some charter school leaders say the president's embrace of school choice has complicated the local political debate over charter schools.
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Federal agents raided the offices of Celerity Educational Group — which runs a network of charter schools both in Southern California and Louisiana — on Wednesday.
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It will be up to the Trump administration to determine whether California should face consequences for moving ahead as planned with its new statewide science tests.
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The head of the nation's largest teachers union chose Los Angeles as the venue to deliver a message to President-elect Donald Trump: leave public schools alone.
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With L.A. Unified leaders pushing for "decentralization," the board could vote to study overhauling its central office and moving out of its downtown headquarters.
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A team of researchers figured out which California schools were using which math textbooks. When comparing that list to the schools' test scores, one book stood out.
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If an impasse over which science assessment California students should take escalates further, it could put the state's federal education funding at risk.
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The state wanted L.A. Unified to outline another $245 million to spend on English learners, low-income students and foster children. LAUSD now has a plan to meet that demand.
Stories by Kyle Stokes
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