Category: Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)

LA Unified Reports Record High Graduation Rate Amid Learning Loss

December 23, 2022
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The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) reported a record-high graduation rate last year amid high rates of absenteeism and pandemic learning loss in students. About 86.1 percent of LAUSD students graduated in the 2021–22 school year, while California’s graduation rate was about 87.4 percent, according to state data released last week. LAUSD’s most recent numbers are…

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15-Year-Old’s Family Sues LA Unified Over Drug Death at School

December 15, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—The mother of a 15-year-old girl who died of an overdose in a bathroom at Bernstein High School in Hollywood announced a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Dec. 14, alleging school officials knew there was a problem with drug use at the campus but took no action. LAUSD knew that…

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California Students Lose 5 Months Progress in Math Over Pandemic: Study

December 13, 2022
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California students lost nearly half a year’s worth of math progress from 2019 to 2022, according to a recent study measuring pandemic learning loss by researchers at Stanford and Harvard universities. The “Education Recovery Scorecard” study, published in October, used previous compared pre-pandemic academic progress to that made over the pandemic. The study found that…

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11 Percent of Students Will Attend LA Unified’s Accelerated Learning Days

December 9, 2022
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Only one in nine students will participate in the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) additional learning days this month, a strategy the district has imposed to make up for pandemic-induced learning loss. The district is offering two accelerated learning days on Dec. 19 and 20 during the upcoming winter break to help students still…

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LA Teachers’ Union Demands 20 Percent Pay Raise, Reduced Class Size, Less Standardized Testing

December 8, 2022
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The Los Angeles teachers’ union is demanding a 20 percent pay raise over the next two years for LA Unified School District (LAUSD) teachers, citing stress from living costs and COVID-19 pandemic learning loss. United Teachers of LA (UTLA)—which has 35,000 members—held three simultaneous rallies across the district Dec. 5. At the rally, UTLA president…

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‘Nation’s Report Card’ Shows Pandemic Learning Loss, Signs of Recovery in Los Angeles Unified

October 25, 2022
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A new report by the U.S. Education Department shows that students in California performed better than other states over the past three years, with the Los Angeles Unified School District making some improvements. But overall, students across the nation are still heavily affected by pandemic learning loss. Eighth and fourth graders in nearly every state…

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LAUSD Board Approves Rescheduling of ‘Optional’ Instructional Days

October 13, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board of Education unanimously approved an adjustment to this year’s academic calendar, shifting four optional instructional days designed to help recoup learning lost during the pandemic to winter and spring break periods. The district had originally sprinkled the optional instructional days into the school year, with the…

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Hack of LA Unified Failed to Access Sensitive Staff, Student Data: Superintendent

October 3, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—An analysis of stolen Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) data posted on the dark web by a criminal hacking syndicate showed no evidence that the cyberattack accessed sensitive student or staff personal data, the district superintendent said Monday, Oct. 3, adding the attack appears to have been “even more limited than we originally…

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Report: Hackers Release LA Unified School District Data After Ransom Demand Denied

October 2, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—Hackers have released some data stolen in a cyberattack against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), according to a newspaper report Oct. 2. The data were released Oct. 1—two days before a deadline previously given by the hackers—in an apparent response to LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s stated refusal to pay y to an…

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Hackers Set Oct. 3 Deadline for LA Unified to Meet Ransom Demand

September 30, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—An international hacking syndicate claiming responsibility for a cyberattack that forced a shutdown of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) computer systems has set a Monday, Oct. 3, deadline for the district to pay a ransom or the organization will publish undisclosed information it claims it obtained in the hack. In a dark web…

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