The Latest Breaking News from LAUSD

LOS ANGELES — It's not every day that the superintendent of the nation's second-largest school district can be heard touting blankies and onesies. But on Tuesday, Los Angeles schools chief Alberto Carvalho launched a student recruitment campaign beginning just about as early as possible — targeting newborns in maternity wards,…

It’s no surprise that educational achievement suffered after two chaotic years of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. But it’s still distressing to see the desolate picture of students’ academics and ever-widening gap between low- and high-performing students revealed by the latest national proficiency test scores.

LOS ANGELES — An internal report identified key vulnerabilities in the data systems of the Los Angeles Unified School District two years before hackers launched a major cyberattack that has disrupted operations this week in the nation's second-largest school system.

LOS ANGELES — The private data of more than 400,000 students could be at risk as federal and local investigators assess the damage wreaked by a massive cyberattack against the Los Angeles Unified School District, which overcame a complete digital shutdown to open schools on schedule Tuesday.

The ransomware attack on the country's second-largest school district sounded alarms across the country, from urgent talks with the White House and the National Security Council.

LOS ANGELES — Sweat streamed down the faces of children during 10 a.m. recess Wednesday at Lockwood Elementary. Boys' cheeks flushed red as they played kickball. Girls found a sliver a shade beneath a handball wall to jump rope. With morning temperatures soaring into the 90s, this would be their…

LOS ANGELES — Two weeks before school starts, Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho estimates that between 10,000 and 20,000 students are not enrolled or stopped attending last year, with the problem most pronounced in the youngest grades.

LOS ANGELES — In the spring of 1980, Julian Nava found himself about to become a pioneer again.

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Tuesday struck down L.A. Unified's student COVID-19 vaccine mandate, ruling that the school district exceeded its authority and that the power to require children to be vaccinated to attend school lies with the state.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District is poised to vote on a controversial proposal that could reshape education for thousands of deaf and hard-of-hearing students, a key battle in a long national fight over how such children learn language.

Generations of students at Jordan high in Los Angeles lived with extreme pollution nearby. Now, could things finally change?