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fromLos Angeles Times
1 month agoTrump administration looks to join suit alleging LAUSD discriminates against white students
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to join a federal lawsuit accusing the Los Angeles school district of discriminating against white students. At issue is a long-running effort to help disadvantaged students of color in Los Angeles by providing somewhat smaller classes to the vast majority of schools - leaving out campuses with larger numbers of white students. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in January by the 1776 Project Foundation, targets a decades-old effort to combat the harms of segregation
Social justice
fromLos Angeles Times
2 months agoLAUSD teachers union members authorize strike, ratcheting up pressure on contract talks
"The current salary schedule is so low that thousands of LAUSD educators qualify as low-income for affordable housing," the union said in a recent statement. Thousands of teachers more "are barely getting by just above the median income, living paycheck to paycheck after decades working for the district," the union statement said.
Education
Education
fromLos Angeles Times
2 months agoCommentary: The myth of anti-white discrimination in L.A. schools - and the politics behind it
Los Angeles Unified directs extra resources to schools that are over 70% non-white, and a lawsuit alleges this policy discriminates against white and Middle Eastern students.
Food & drink
fromTasting Table
5 months agoLos Angeles Students Have Been Eating This Legendary Cafeteria Treat For More Than 70 Years - Tasting Table
Los Angeles Unified School District's coffee cake, originating in a 1954 recipe, became a beloved, long-running school cafeteria staple prized for its taste and aroma.
fromLos Angeles Times
5 months agoSend kids to school with a cough or sniffles? Some parents say no way
Since then, school policies have softened significantly. At L.A. Unified, for example, parents are directed to send their children to school if they have a mild cold or cough. The main symptoms that require keeping a child home are fever of 100.4 and above, vomiting or diarrhea, according to district instructions on "How to Safely Send Your Student to School."
Education
US politics
fromwww.mercurynews.com
7 months agoLos Angeles schools are taking measures to protect students from ICE raids. Why hasn't the Bay Area followed suit?
Large school districts are implementing protective measures to shield immigrant students and families from increased immigration enforcement, while many Bay Area schools lag behind.
NYC parents
fromLos Angeles Times
10 months agoTeachers tend to plan pregnancies with summer due dates. Could a LAUSD policy change that?
Teachers plan pregnancies around summer vacations due to lack of paid family leave.
LAUSD introduces resolution to improve paid family leave for educators amid staffing shortages.
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