U.S. Department of Education

How Debt Collectors Get Away With Terrorizing Consumers -- With the Blessing of Public Officials

Thanks to a congressional loophole, local prosecutors actually hire private firms to harass citizens

Barbarians in the Ivory Tower

America's for-profit colleges use students in their greedy quest for federal bucks -- then leave them holding the debt.

Finally: Gay Bullying Gets Recognized as a Civil Rights Issue

Black Kids at LAUSD Suspended at Alarming Rate: Are Teachers, Principals Guilty of Racial Profiling?

In reaction to the L.A. riots, black flight from Los Angeles whittled the K-12 population down to only 9 percent African-American, as of the 2009-10 school year. But those roughly 61,000 black kids are being punished much more harshly than white, Asian or Latino kids, according to new data from the ... More >>

Miramonte Scandal Fallout Prompts L.A. School District to Report Alleged Pervs to State, as It Should Have Done From Day 1

So L.A. Unified School District has had a few alleged bad apples that only it and, in some cases, police knew about. Despite what we've been told about federal Title 9 guidelines requiring parents and students to be notified when someone at their campus is accused of sexual improprieties with stude ... More >>

Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, Walks Out on 1,000-Plus Parents Who Traveled to His L.A. County Town Hall

Arne Duncan has places to be.​Lydia Grant, a big education activist in SoCal, asked us to attend U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's two-hour-long town hall in Pico Rivera earlier this week. Duncan had promised big things for the Tuesday event: The town hall is hosted by the U.S. Depart ... More >>

Beverly Hills Versus the Westside Subway

California Has Most Failing Schools in Nation

PHOTO BY TED SOQUIOnly 3 percent of kids at McKinley Elementary in Compton will go to college one day​Here, we'll give you the good news first: The U.S. Department of Education is handing out $3.5 billion to the America's worst-performing schools this year! And lord (slash Obama) knows they n ... More >>

UCLA Report: Racial Segregation is Alive in Los Angeles and Southern California Schools

​Separate but unequal. That's how a team of civil rights researchers at UCLA characterize the elementary and secondary schools in Los Angeles and surrounding counties in a recent report examining segregation. For while the days of actual Jim Crow laws in California may be gone, Latino and Afric ... More >>

Governor Jerry Brown Orders Hiring Freeze: Let's Hope it's Not as Fake as "Freezes" where Arnold and Gray Davis Hired Like Madmen

Can tough-talking Jerry Brown stop even a single hire during his "hiring freeze"?​Today's breathless press release states that California Gov. Jerry Brown has ordered a massive state hiring freeze. Will that be anything like Gov. Gray Davis' utterly fake freeze, during which tens of thousands ... More >>

At Last: 'Parent Trigger' Troop Files Lawsuit Against Compton Unified School District

PHOTO BY TED SOQUIThings just got real in Compton​Updated after the jump: Judge grants parents a restraining order against the Compton school district! Right after two big NorCal and SoCal newspapers released battling editorials on California's extreme "Parent Trigger" law -- the LA Times say ... More >>

Le Cordon Bleu Closes in Pittsburgh: Is Pasadena Lawsuit Connected? School Says No

​Pittsburgh's branch of Le Cordon Bleu culinary school, a subsidiary of the Career Education Corporation (CEC), will soon be closing its doors, reports the Pittsburgh Business Times. Mark Spencer, a spokesman for CEC, says the school's closing has nothing to do with the class action lawsuit c ... More >>

Compton School District Tries to Force 'Parent Trigger' Signers to Declare Discontent Face-to-Face With School Officials

PHOTO BY TED SOQUICompton parents who want to switch McKinley Elementary into different hands will have to tell that to district higher-ups next week​At an unannounced Compton Unified School District meeting last night, district officials demanded that McKinley Elementary School parents -- ove ... More >>

In Compton, Parent Trigger Supporters File Intimidation Charges With U.S. Department of Education

Parent Revolution organizers Shirley Ford and Mary Nareja (center) with McKinley Elementary parents​Two parents in Compton have filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights. They charge that intimidation tactics have been used during the ongoing Parent Trigg ... More >>

TRIGGER ISSUE

Tim Donnelly's Revolution

Tea Party newcomer wants Legislature to adopt Arizona immigration law

Incredibly Strange Picture of Cat Power Reading to Kids

US Dept. of EducationCat Power, like ODB, is for the children​No, not this picture on the right. That's just your average Dept. of Education photo op celebrating the fact that they got "national musical recording artist Cat Power" (as opposed to "spoken word recording artist"?) to read Shel S ... More >>

Alleged 'Fight-Club Teacher' Arrested For Encouraging Teens To Go At It

​A teacher who allegedly organized fights between teenage boys at youth probation Camp Karl Holton in San Fernando has been arrested on suspicion of six counts of child endangerment, a sheriff's spokesman said. Stephen Wesley, 43, was arrested about 7 a.m. Tuesday, spokesman Steve Whitmore sa ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican! Playing the Numbers

Preacher Pat Misfires

Lying Along the Potomac

10 fibs by our president

Affirming Truth

But the court in the very near future could see things differently

The Patronage Game

Bush’s end run around Roe

The Parent Trap

Parent gets handcuffed, school district gets embarrassed

Letters

Degrees of Deceit

How one inner-city L.A. high school played the numbers game and made its dropout rate go away

To Be Gay and Young in L.A.

Coming-out stories

What I Pinched on My Summer Vacation

The Clampdown

Teenagers are better than ever. So why are we treating them like criminals?

Letters

Ecstasy Without Fear

DanceSafe uses Web site to make rave dosing less risky

Letters

Troubled Help

Gang program hits low point in Echo Park

The saga of a toxic school

Big Stick

Inglewood schools super McKinley Nash cows his critics