Tag: Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)

Los Angeles Schools to Provide Overdose Antidote After Recent Teen Death

LOS ANGELES—Responding to recent fentanyl overdoses by students, including the death of a 15-year-old girl in a Hollywood school bathroom, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced Sept. 22 the anti-overdose medication Narcan will be available at all of its campuses by mid-October. Doses of Narcan, or naloxone, will also be provided to all…


LAPD: 7th Teen Overdosed Recently, Apparently From Fentanyl

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Authorities said Sept. 21 at least seven local teens, including a 15-year-old Bernstein High School girl who died a week ago, have overdosed in the past month from pills believed to have contained fentanyl. The most recent overdose occurred on the morning of Sept. 17, when a 15-year-old male student at STEM Academy…


LA Unified Receives Unspecified Ransom Demand Over Cyber Attack

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) confirmed Sept. 21 it has received a ransom demand following a Labor Day weekend cyber attack that led to a shutdown of most of the district’s computer systems. “We can acknowledge … that there has been communication from this actor [hacker] and we have been responsive without…


72 Percent of Los Angeles Students Fail to Meet Math Standards

More than half of students across all grade levels in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) failed to meet state testing standards in subjects like mathematics and English for the 2021–22 school year. According to data released by the district Sept. 9, only about 42 percent of students met the state testing standards in…


Los Angeles Unified Promotes LGBT Ideology With ‘Queer All School Year’ Calendar

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)—the second largest school district in the United States—offered its teachers a calendar with year-round “queer and trans-affirming” activities and lesson plans for K–12 students. First introduced during the 2020–2021 school year, the “Queer All School Year” calendar lists monthly activities instructors can use in their classrooms to show…


Los Angeles Unified School District Hit With Ransomware Attack

The information technology systems of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in California, the second largest school district in the United States, were targeted by a ransomware attack over Labor Day weekend, the school system announced Monday. Following the “external cyber attack” on IT assets, LAUSD quickly responded to minimize disruptions to its network, including…


LAUSD Hit By Cyberattack, Prompting Federal Response

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) said classes will resume as scheduled Sept. 6 after the district experienced a cyberattack on its information technology systems over the weekend. The district contacted federal officials over the weekend, prompting the White House to mobilize a response from the U.S. Department of Education, the FBI, and…


Los Angeles Teachers Union to Boycott First of Four Extra School Days

A union representing teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is going to boycott the district’s first of four optional instruction days, which its members said were added to this school year without labor negotiation. United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) announced Aug. 26 that 93 percent of its more than 34,000 members voted…


Group Urges Los Angeles to End Indoor Masking for Kids Playing Sports at City Facilities

The grassroots organization LA Uprising launched a campaign this week asking Los Angeles city officials to end an ongoing indoor mask mandate for youth sports at city facilities. Group organizer Ross Novie, a father of two Los Angeles public school students, said he started the effort after visiting Mar Vista Recreation Center last weekend and…


About 36,000 LA Unified Students Missing From First Week of School

About 8.3 percent of students enrolled in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)—the second largest school district in the United States—were absent from the first week of school, according to district officials. The data released by the district shows 89 percent of students attended the first day of school on Monday, Aug. 15. That…