Tamar Galatzan

Monica Ratliff: The Woman Who May Change L.A.

John Deasy is the most admired school superintendent in city history. But this fifth-grade teacher isn't impressed

Can Kate Anderson, Mom of Twins, Fix LAUSD?

Kate Anderson vs. Steve Zimmer LAUSD Board Race: Mother of Twins, Lawyer and Activist Goes After Anti-Charter Zimmer

The heat is on. Kate Anderson, an activist mom and successful attorney with political chops -- she worked for Congress members Henry Waxman and Jane Harman -- will try to oust Steve Zimmer, the Westside's man on Los Angeles Unified School Board, in March 2013. Zimmer has emerged as a fierce oppone ... More >>

Academia Semillas del Pueblo, a Failing School, Gets an L.A. Times Puff Piece

Updated with response from the Times on next page. By Hillel Aron The Los Angeles Times printed an odd take on Academia Semillas del Pueblo, the failing charter whose kids are nowhere near state standards on reading, writing, adding and subtracting -- even as compared to their identical, struggli ... More >>

Academia Semillas, a Failing School, Escapes Closure

At LAUSD, big friends help

USDA Relents on Pink Slime; Schools Can Opt Out

The people spoke, and they said, "No more pink slime!" And this time, the feds actually listened, kind of. Last Monday, we told you how the U.S. Department of Agriculture was planning on shipping out 7 million pounds of "pink slime" to be added to the lunches of unknowing urchins at public school ... More >>

Mark Berndt's $40,000 Payoff

Arrested as sex pervert, former LAUSD teacher settles into retirement

School Reformer Yolie Flores Departs LAUSD to Fight From Outside

She forced through the most radical idea in recent lausd history. So why’s she leaving for a Bill Gates start-up?

Los Angeles Unified School District Board March 8, 2011 Election Results

Update #2: Kayser talks to L.A. Weekly. See below. Update: Numbers are continuing in the same direction as more votes are counted. See Below. Bennett Kayser​Absentee votes are counted for the Los Angeles Unified School District Board race. We will continue to keep you updated as numbers come i ... More >>

El Camino Real High School in San Fernando Valley, Nationally Respected, Flees LAUSD to Become Charter School

Office-clinger Tamar Galatzan, behind Zuma Dogg, unsuccessfully humping to become a Los Angeles City Council member.​Update: The school was in the news recently for the Jeff Stenroos faked shooting. One of the top-rated schools in the Western U.S., El Camino Real High School -- so good that ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa's Friends, Including City-NFL-Stadium Deal Hopeful Anschutz Corp., Aim $1 Mil at his School Board Picks

Mayor V's candidates get $1 million in support.​L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants to keep his grip on the L.A. school board, and he's got some friends in high places helping him out. One of those friends, the Anshutz Corp., has given $100,000 to the Coalition for School Reform, a committe ... More >>

A.J. Duffy's UTLA Cracks Further As Heather Kolodny Drops Los Angeles School Board Bid

A.J. Duffy's tiny pocket is full​Paranoid leaders at United Teachers Los Angeles seek anti-reform teachers to run for Los Angeles Unified School Board. That's right. They grimly resist after losing public confidence following the brilliant L.A. Times test score expose of 6,000 teachers. The Ti ... More >>

Insiders Versus Charters at LAUSD

Strings were pulled, and Ramon Cortines was stopped by his own Board of Education

Unregulated Medical Marijuana: Could Pot-Brownie Bake Sales Help?

L.A. Medical-Pot Shops Peddle to LAUSD Pupils

As kids flood weed outlets, Ramon Cortines admits there's no plan

Potshots Over Los Angeles Pot Shops

A year late, the City Council tries to uninvite its unvetted marijuana collectives

Pre-election fornicating? A land speculator throws his weight around in Council District 2 Election

By Paul TeetorA small-scale blueprint of everything that's wrong with L.A. City Hall politics will be on display tonight at a Catholic church in Valley Glen, a community near Victory Boulevard and Laurel Canyon Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley: Tonight, a land speculator who is pushing for a hu ... More >>

At the mercy of adults

Eight candidates scare L.A. City Hall

A September 22 election in Council District 2 may shake all the way to downtown

Carpetbagging for Cash in L.A. Council District 2

Eight committed San Fernando Valley activists try to stop two monied outsiders

LAUSD's Finest: Los Angeles School Police

How an oblivious school board lets a tiny, scandal-ridden force endanger L.A. kids

Can an Activist Crack L.A. City Hall's Machine?

In the riled-up S.F. Valley, a struggle pits regular folk against big money

Lemonade Initiative Rallies for L.A. Schools

Embedded video from CNN Video Valley parents, fed up with the fractious fighting between the L.A. Unified School District and union leaders of the United Teachers Los Angeles, have recently formed a third-force movement called the Lemonade Initiative. ("When you're given lemonades," etc.) This morni ... More >>

Replacing Wendy Greuel in the Valley

A juicy $2.5 million City Council seat opens in anti-Villaraigosa territory

Brewer's Bungled Buyout

Who's More Incompetent, the Ousted Supe or Garcia and LAUSD Board Flunkies?

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?

Is This the Part They Call Reform?

Villaraigosa doesn’t win a decisive victory, and one of his own candidates is already minimizing his role

School Board Money Frenzy

Massive cash gushing into campaigns backed by Villaraigosa could outdo the $2.3 million raised by Riordan

Nasty Battle for Classroom Control

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

Municipal Whiplash

The mayor suddenly decides gang crime, not L.A. Unified, is public enemy No. 1

Anti-Choice Mayor

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