Bryan Steele

Federal funds intended for helping poor children succeed in school were instead spent to pay part of their principals' salaries, according to state officials. The shift of funds occurred at 455 campuses across the L.A. Unified School District this year. State regulators are demanding that the school district either return......

Internal investigators have cleared a Huntington Park middle school of allegations that staff members falsified special-education documents for as many as 120 students last May in the face of a state audit of the Los Angeles Unified School District. A review of the district's inquiry, however, shows that investigators failed......