Kyle Stokes

L.A. Unified has taken a step toward yanking the high school's charter over concerns about its finances. This is the school's latest attempt to get right with LAUSD.

Last fall, Great Public Schools Now was seen as a threat to LAUSD. On Thursday, the group outlined a plan to award up to $3.85 million to five L.A. Unified schools.

Around 50 teachers and parents from El Camino Real Charter High School gathered near the campus Wednesday morning to pose a pointed question to members of their own governing board: Why have they not fired El Camino principal Dave Fehte?

Board members want L.A. Unified superintendent Michelle King to refine her strategic plan draft to double-down on the goal of "100 percent" high school graduation.

Attorneys for El Camino Real Charter High School outlined those actions in a response to allegations L.A. Unified leveled against the school last month.

The sudden demise of City Charter High School demonstrates both how competitive and how complicated West L.A.'s school choice market for high schools has become.

School board members voted to move the district’s first day of classes to later dates in 2017 and 2018, but stopped short of requiring a post-Labor Day start.

Supt. Michelle King has asked central office managers to submit plans to cut their budgets by 30 percent, KPCC has learned. For now, it's just a planning exercise.

A team of educators with plans to launch a charter high school completely retooled to serve homeless and foster youth has won $10 million in startup money.

Chronic absenteeism — missing two days or more each month — is as big of a problem in suburban schools as it is in the Southland's urban centers, a new report shows.