A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative ...

This August, a group of wide-eyed sixth graders stepped off a school bus and onto Cal State Northridge’s campus. Some sixth ...

Last year, the Los Angeles YMCA held backpack giveaways for migrant families and needy students in public parks and community ...

Jean M. Twenge holds an unusual place among Ph.D. psychologists. For the past two decades, she has toggled between the ...

Former LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy was a polarizing figure, earning almost equal parts praise and scorn, and naturally the news of his resignation has evoked similar opposing reactions. Some ...

Your donation will help us produce journalism like this. Please give today. George McKenna doesn’t talk about it much, but Denzel Washington played him in a TV movie called “The George McKenna Story.” ...

Magnolia Public Schools, which has fought bitterly with the LA Unified school board to keep several of its schools open, has turned to an old LAUSD hand to take over its leadership. Caprice Young, a ...

The Rust Belt city of Rochester in upstate New York has the most economically segregating school district border in the country, walling off the high-poverty education system from its affluent ...

Your donation will help us produce journalism like this. Please give today. Two high performing LA Unified charter schools, Magnolia Science Academy 6 and Magnolia Science Academy 7, have been ordered ...

Los Angeles renovated and relaunched licensed childcare centers using federal pandemic relief money. Less than four years later, the city says it doesn’t have the money to keep running them. (Libby ...

Before there were Dreamers, thousands of young Latinos marched out of their East Los Angeles classrooms half a century ago for their right to be educated. “I was never told I was college material or ...

Interactive: Data From 9,500 Districts Finds Even More Staff and Fewer Students Your donation will help us produce journalism like this. Please give today. LA Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho ...