A group of California parents and students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Compton school district alleging a pattern of abuse and racial profiling of Latinos by school police.
Continue reading...A leading Latino legal civil rights organization is suing the ABC Unified School District in California claiming the district is illegally diluting the voting clout of Latinos and barring them from elective office by using an at-large electoral system for school board races.
Continue reading...The Los Angeles Times reports that efforts by the Los Angeles Unified School District to secure a $40 million grant through the Race to the Top competition funded by the U.S. Department of Education has failed, because the L.A. teachers’ union has declined to sign the application, a condition for the competition imposed by ED.
Continue reading...Education Week reports that while other states have sought to reform teacher job protections, such as tenure, seniority, and due process, through legislation, opponents in California have resorted to litigation instead to eliminate such protections.
Continue reading...The Los Angeles Times reports that Students Matter, a non-profit group known to oppose teachers unions, has filed suit on behalf of eight students, taking aim at California laws governing teacher tenure rules, seniority protections and the teacher dismissal process.
Continue reading...The Glendale News-Press reports that the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU-SCA) has entered into preliminary negotiations with the City of Glendale and Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) regarding a lawsuit alleging racial profiling of Latino students at Hoover High School.
Continue reading...According to an Associated Press (AP) report in Education Week, a 19-month civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) found that Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) failed to provide an equal education to English-learners and African-American students, resulting in wide academic disparities. LAUSD has agreed to remedy the disparities through a variety of measures, including a complete overhaul of its English-learning program and improving resources such as computers and library books to schools with predominantly black student bodies.
Continue reading...According to a Daily News report in Education Week, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), which until 2010 had a strict ban on using social media sites during work hours or on district computers, is attempting to develop a policy that will best use the technology while steering clear of its drawbacks.
Continue reading...Faced with a lawsuit over its decision to prohibit an elementary school student, identified as B.H., from performing to a Christian-themed song at his school’s talent show, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) reversed course and will allow the student to perform his “interpretive movement” to the song, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The suit was brought by B.H.’s mother, Adriana Hickman, alleging that school officials’ refusal to allow B.H. to perform to the song violated his free speech rights. According to Hickman’s suit, after her son auditioned for the talent show, the school principal told her that the song, titled “We Shine,” was offensive and violated the separation of church and state.
Continue reading...The Associated Press (AP) reports in the Washington Post that a Los Angeles County Superior Court has approved a sweeping overhaul of teacher layoff procedures. While education reformers hail the settlement agreement as a landmark decision to keep more effective instructors in the classroom, unions are denouncing it as a step toward dismantling tenure.
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