Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho joined U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Cindy Marten and national education and technology leaders at the White House on Jan. 22, for the release of the 2024 National Educational Technology Plan.
Stephanie Wiggins was named CEO of the L.A. Country Metropolitan Transportation Authority in December of 2018- she is the first Black woman to lead the department.
On Tuesday, August 8, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy Christopher A. Coes (U.S. DOT) met with the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) executives, local authorities and community members to celebrate the recently awarded grant funding for the “RAISE Up Watts: Catalyzing Connectivity through Active Transportation” project in Los Angeles.
LAUSD’s Black Student Achievement Plan stresses the importance of Black history and culture. Irvin Davis, an educator and assistant football coach at Dorsey High School, recently outlined the new initiative to the L.A. Sentinel.
After more than five decades as a public-school educator and administrator and almost a decade as an elected official, prominent educator and community leader Dr. George J. McKenna III has decided to retire from the L.A. Unified Board of Education at the end of his current term.
An endearing figure in the Watts community was commemorated with renaming of a pocket park in her honor. Betty F. Day Park was unveiled on Saturday, March 31, to the cheers of Day’s family, neighbors and friends.
The union representing 30,000 Los Angeles Unified School District service workers who just concluded a three-day strike has reached a tentative labor contract with the district, officials announced Friday, March 24.
Jasmyne Pope, Dorsey High School’s new band teacher, has implemented a renewed vision to create exposure to instrumental music for the school and for the community. Her course schedule includes Modern Band, Performance Band and Music Appreciation.
About 400 LAUSD students from inner-city schools learned what it takes to become successful in business during the PVJOBS Future Entrepreneurs Conference held yesterday at West Los Angeles College.
Families from Baldwin Hills Elementary join forces with United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) at rallies on December 5, 2022 to demand a fair contract.
At the classy Create The Lab venue, Hazel Carmack Harris invited nearly 200 people to a masquerade party for her 80th birthday. However, instead of celebrating her eighth decade, the retired educator and community advocate saluted four people she described as “making the city of Los Angeles a better place to live.”
CEO Ed Magee and Chairperson Charmaine Jefferson sat down with L.A. Sentinel to discuss their mission, goal, and Proposition 28.
Excitement is building throughout L.A. as people anticipate the 17th Annual Taste of Soul Family Festival, set for Saturday, October 15, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., on Crenshaw Blvd., between Stocker St. and Obama Blvd.
Educational Nonprofit Sends Youth Participants to College with $4 Million in scholarship funds. The program, which serves 50 foster youth and low-income youth each year, guides these students in gaining access to post-secondary education with little to no student debt.
Resilient Walker is the title of all things – Dr. Shree Walker’s book, the name of her company, as well as the word’s the educator, motivational speaker, and CEO lives by.