Castaic's a high school short of completion

When David Huffaker moved to Castaic in 1985, he was certain that one day his children would graduate from a brand new high school that the...

Education Department official acknowledges error in counseling teen

A President Obama appointee in the Education Department acknowledged Wed- nesday that as a teacher 21 years ago he mishandled an incident in which...

L.A. schools construction chief resigns

Guy Mehula, the highly regarded head of the Los Angeles Unified School District's massive school construction program, has resigned after an...

Insurance dispute takes center stage in auditorium drama

Garfield High School has not hosted a play, a...

Radio program eases transition for Vietnamese parents in Garden Grove

Annie Mai knows what it's like to be the only Vietnamese student in class. She understands what it is to have parents who work long hours and are...

Oakland campus caters to refugees, immigrants

Samuel Kanwea showed up for what should have been his freshman year in high school illiterate, malnourished and exhausted from years of living in a...

College radicalism redux

The campus protests of the 1960s happened long enough ago that the images filter through in black-and-white, the tint of television newsreels and...

St. Genevieve High School students to perform for former President Jimmy Carter

The dance teams and choir at St. Genevieve High School in Panorama City count plenty of boosters on their home turf and one very important supporter...

Garfield High is eligible for takeover

Garfield High, which became nationally known as the real-life setting for the film "Stand and Deliver," will be among the initial 12 local campuses,...

Suspected swine flu outbreaks reported at schools in L.A. County

Suspected swine flu outbreaks have occurred at several schools in Los Angeles County since classes began, health and education officials say.

Generous bequest has Pasadena magnet school asking: Who?

The mystery began in July when an attorney called Blair International Baccalaureate School and told it to be on the lookout for a large check. Two...

New GI Bill, same old bureaucratic delays

When Amber Oberg left the Army after eight years of active duty, her timing seemed perfect. Congress was creating a Post-9/11 GI Bill, with generous...

Protest planned for University of California system

Rallies, walkouts and teach-ins are scheduled today across the University of California system, with professors, students and staff expected to...

UCLA volunteers fan out across city

Brush in hand, UCLA junior Jacob Castaneda was hard at work Tuesday, spreading a fresh coat of brown paint on the exterior of a classroom bungalow...

L.A. school district union agrees to furloughs

In what Los Angeles school district officials hope is the first of several concessions by labor unions, bus drivers have agreed to take six unpaid...

Budget cuts push some classrooms way over capacity

If there had been rafters, somebody would have been hanging from them.

No Obama, no Bush and no field trips for these Texas students

A recent string of decisions by officials at the Arlington Independent School District in Texas has ensured that there will be no politics in the...