LAUSD

2015 CIF Los Angeles City Section Girls Volleyball All-City Teams

Division I Player of the Year: Kashauna Williams,  El Camino Real , Junior Coach of the Year: Ian Lee,  El Camino Real First Team Sarah Hagge, Granada Hills, Junior Levila Iosua, Carson, Senior Kayla Jacks, El Camino Real, Senior Isabel Kelley, Palisades, Senior Isabella Barbera, El Camino, Real Senior Naomi Tanaka, Carson, Senior Angel Echipue, Palisades, Junior Second Team Olivia Zelon, Palisades, Junior Brittany Pedrosa, Hamilton, Senior Sara Park, Granada Hills, Senior Trinity Goodman, El Camino Real, Senior Ashley Akhavan, Taft, Senior Autumn Stevens, Granada Hills, Senior Chloe Fields-Owens, Carson, Senior Division II Player of the Year: Tinei Suitoni Chatsworth Junior

Students, Parents and Teachers Protest Conditions at LAUSD Schools

Students, parents and teachers from throughout Los Angeles County rallied on the steps of Susan Miller Dorsey High School on Thursday, Nov. 19 to demand that the Los Angeles Unified School District improve conditions impacting Los Angeles schools. Supported by UTLA members, the protestors voiced their concerns to Los Angeles Unified School District’s Office of Government Relations representative Pedro Salcedo, who was present to hear the grievances. The state of California’s new funding process, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which encourages stakeholder participation in the LAUSD’s budget, requires all school districts to have a Local Control and Accountability Plan

Class-Action Settlement to Protect LAUSD and Compton Students from Being Assigned to `Fake’ Classes

The state Board of Education recently voted to approve a settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of students who lost learning time because they were placed in so-called “fake” classes that lacked instructional value. Four schools in Los Angeles County — John C. Fremont, Thomas B. Jefferson and Susan Miller Dorsey high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District and Compton High School in the Compton Unified School District – were named in Cruz v. State of California, along with two in Alameda County, where the suit was filed. Under the agreement, state education officials will provide