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Kyle Stokes
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Former Senior Reporter, K-12 Education
Stories by Kyle Stokes
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The vast majority of LAUSD teachers "meet" or "exceed standards" on their evaluations, according to new numbers -- but are those numbers right?
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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.
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Beutner's answer: focusing only on the issues at dispute in contract negotiations sidelines other worthy conversations.
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The 'window of opportunity is closing to address the district's fiscal challenges,' a county official recently warned.
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Weeks or months could still pass before UTLA leaders actually call for a walkout.
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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.
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Breaking down the broken-down contract talks that have teachers in the nation's second-largest school district on picket lines. The lives of nearly half a million LAUSD students have been disrupted.
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Civil rights groups are pressing the L.A. Unified School District to end its policy of randomly searching students with hand-held metal detectors. Those activists recently got a chance for a face-to-face meeting with top district officials.
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More than 43,000 students depend on an L.A. Unified School District bus; most are riding miles across town to a magnet school far from home.
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It looks increasingly likely that voters in controversial Ref Rodriguez's former district will be without a voice until that election is over.
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As a child, a border once separated Claudia Martin from her mother. The experience shapes how she digested this summer's news from the border -- and how she treats her patients.
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Board members don't just set big-picture policy. They're also advocates for the regions they represent.