David Tokofsky

Outing Lemon Teachers at LAUSD

33,000 teachers, now always stamped "satisfactory," might finally get graded

Educating Maria

On L.A.'s Skid Row, a generational war over how to teach the American children of illegal immigrants

Art School or LAUSD Folly?

A gorgeous downtown high school has no plan, no curriculum — but sure looks fab

Latino Leaders' Clinton and Obama Endorsements: California's Wannabe Kingmakers

Deciphering the payback, ambition and backbiting behind it all

How Superintendent David Brewer Ran Aground

The admiral's sinking ship

Antonio Remakes School Board

But with 43,000 kids fleeing LAUSD to charter schools, will mayor follow?

Talk of the Town

Nasty Battle for Classroom Control

L.A., which educates one of every 12 California students, is ground zero in the Education Wars

Bitch Slapped

Stripped of his takeover plan, Villaraigosa talks partnership with schools prez Marlene Canter — but this is war

Anti-Choice Mayor

A political machine squeezes out Tokofsky, Montañez and Fuentes, giving voters sanitized choices

A Black Antonio?

Or, will the new school superintendent turn out to be the next Willie Williams

Schooling the Schools

At South Gate, and elsewhere, ambitious students demand more from LAUSD

A Night for Mama

Antonio vows to work every day for all of L.A.

New Jack Activists

The Coalition for Educational Justice is fighting generations of neglect with a secret weapon — students

What If . . .

the Ambassador Hotel could be saved as a school

Belmont Eternal

School project brings out the best — and worst — in board members

This Watchdog Can Still Bite

Tokofsky overcomes the attack of the toilets

L.A. Weekly’s Choices

Letters

The Reformers Are Dead, Long Live the Reformers

L.A.’s teachers union upends the Riordan Revolution in midstream

A Capricious Fate

School-board president loses race she was supposed to win

Endorsements

Our recommendations in the March 4 Los Angeles municipal election

A Million-Dollar Moment

Off camera, an L.A. school-board candidate admits Riordan and Broad chose her

Quaking Over Belmont

News of fatal fault revealed only after school bond passed

Riordan the Meddler

Ex-mayor is out to dump the renegade school-board member who tried to stop a project that benefited his law firm

Overcrowded and Overdrawn

L.A. Unified has already started spending the money it’s seeking from voters next week

Shadow Over Schools

The next move could be busting up L.A. Unified

Dumb and Dumber

School board learns why shady deals are done in the shade

Return to Neverland

L.A. schools superintendent Roy Romer is poised to bring Belmont back from the dead

In the Hot Spot

Where school-board members stand on Belmont

Streetwalkin' Times Woman

Tempting Belmont

School board can hardly refuse money for safety study of L.A.’s most troubled campus

Size Matters

Former Governor Pete Wilson said that reducing class size would be good for kids. He should have said it would be good for affluent kids.

Held Back

The Miserable State of Black Education

Belmont Bungling

Auditor links bad decisions that brought us Oil Field High to string of conflicts of interest

The Belmont Decision

School board should wait for more studies before ruling on bungled project

A School System is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Stop Time

School board suspends most work at Belmont, halts all comments

After-Math

The new equation of power politics at the school district

Richard Riordan, Pol

How the mayor got his charter and his school board

Retail in the Red

Shopping center at Belmont complex is no bargain

Venice Riots II

Out With the Old

Riordan makes good on vow to topple incumbents

The Best School Board Money Can Buy

Reform is the reason, but there’s little rhyme to Riordan’s school slate

Our Choices in the April 13 L.A. City Election

The Full (Bel)Monty

A new push to bare all at scandal-plagued school project

Who Poisoned the Well?

Toxic truth haunts LAUSD at Belmont

Land Deal Yields
No Land, No Deal

Planning czar Shambra’s biggest deal never happened

School Board Fires

But questions remain over his allegations of wrongdoing and safety hazards

Alatorre’s Tangled Web

“Service” takes on special meaning in the 14th district