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Community Coalition
School Finance
February 1, 2024

California agrees to target the most struggling students to settle learning-loss lawsuit

Billions in state funding for learning recovery would reach students most affected by the pandemic, under tighter rules, in a deal to end Cayla J. v. California.

John Fensterwald
Los Angeles Unified
November 28, 2023

‘My mission’: Dolores Huerta Elementary Principal Estela Lopez extends support to community

Since Estela Lopez took over as the principal of LAUSD's Dolores Huerta Elementary, she has extended her reach far beyond the classroom to help families by securing housing and delivering critical supplies during the height of the Covid pandemic. 

Mallika Seshadri
Distance Learning
June 11, 2020

More explicit guidance for distance learning sparks debate in Legislature

Parents and student advocacy groups are demanding better remote instruction than what many children, especially in low-income schools, have received.

John Fensterwald
Los Angeles Unified
June 11, 2019

Statewide messages in aftermath of LA parcel tax’s defeat

The failure of Measure EE underscores how hard it is to capture a two-thirds majority needed for approval of a parcel tax and the challenges ahead to pass a 'split-roll' initiative to raise businesses' property taxes.

John Fensterwald
Local Control Funding Formula
July 1, 2015

Suit claims LA Unified underfunding low-income kids, English learners

Hundreds of millions of dollars are at issue in the spending dispute.

John Fensterwald
Curriculum
November 16, 2014

LA groups model of community engagement

Community groups in East and South Los Angeles have spent the past decade making L.A. Unified officials listen and respond to their needs, long before districts were required to do so under California’s new Local Control Funding Formula.

Susan Frey
Curriculum
August 3, 2014

Freedom Schools build readers and leaders

The Freedom Schools summer camp in South Los Angeles is part of a national summer program that helps low-income African-American and Latino students build their literacy skills, understand their history, and become leaders in their schools and communities. The schools are modeled after programs founded during the Civil Rights Movement.

Susan Frey