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For years, there has been talk of a breakup of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Community groups and Los Angeles Unified officials on Tuesday condemned an anonymous flyer handed to Latino parents that threatened them with deportation if they supported plans to convert their neighborhood school to a charter.

Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Ramon Cortines leaves for China today to participate in an international educators forum, district officials said. 

The Los Angeles Unified Board of Education is considering changes to its meeting schedule that could include holding fewer public sessions and eliminating special committees to save time and money, officials said Tuesday.

HOW can you have an education "town hall" where the townsfolk aren't invited?

NORTHRIDGE - State and local educators on Tuesday lauded Holmes Middle School as an example of everything that is being done right at public schools in California.

8.13.09 - The goal is to rid LAUSD of multi-track schools by 2012.

St. Genevieve Catholic High School a testament to the power of music, filmmaking, Southern hospitality, barbecued ribs and a bicoastal friendship 

Redrawing the dire high school graduation picture painted just a few months ago, Los Angeles Unified officials announced this week that the district's dropout rate fell sharply in 2007-08 to about 26 percent.