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LAUSD’s Budget Crisis Deepens: Attendance Plummets 40% While Spending Soars on Lavish Projects and Bureaucracy

February 17, 2026 3:03 pmFebruary 17, 2026 3:39 pm

As the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) grapples with a looming budget shortfall and plans for potential, but insignificant, layoffs, critics are rightfully pointing to a glaring mismatch: student attendance has dropped dramatically over the past decade, yet district...

Students Form Human Swastika on San Jose High School Football Field

December 9, 2025 9:49 amDecember 9, 2025 1:45 pm

Eight Branham High School students in San Jose formed a human swastika on their school’s football field last week, and then posted a photo of it to Instagram with an antisemitic 1939 quote from Adolf Hitler. Where does this disturbing...

LAUSD Teacher Says Defunding School Police Puts Students and Teachers at Risk

July 16, 2025 2:45 amJuly 16, 2025 5:55 pm

As a longtime educator, I’m concerned about numerous disturbing policies championed by the National Education Association (NEA) and United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). Especially troubling is the push to dismantle school safety. For starters, NEA and UTLA have been active...

California Teachers Association’s ‘Curriculum’ of Shame

February 16, 2024 12:10 pmFebruary 16, 2024 3:06 pm

The California Teachers Association just made clear—again—it does not give a fig about your child’s education. Indoctrination? Oh yeah. Education? Nahhhh. At its recent “solidarity conference” at the swanky Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, the union’s leaders paraded a...

California’s Anti-Semitic Ethnic Studies Curriculum are a Manual for Future Left-Wing Activists

December 9, 2023 11:31 amDecember 11, 2023 4:01 pm

At what point do constitutional free speech protections cease to be protected? Yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is one threshold – but isn’t “yelling fire” taking place all across the country, on college campuses, in state Capitols, and even...

LA Schools, Teachers Union Agree to 21% Pay Raise In Three-Year Contract

April 18, 2023 1:00 pmApril 18, 2023 1:00 pm

A new agreement by the Los Angeles United School District (LAUSD) and United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) teachers union was reached Tuesday, resulting in a 21% raise for teachers over the next three years, as well as ending the possibility...

78-Year-Old Jackie Goldberg Elected as Los Angeles Unified School Board President

January 18, 2023 4:18 pm

The Los Angeles Unified School District elected in former school board member and Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg as President of the board on Tuesday, elevating her to the position 40 years after her first initial successful run for the school board....