Education

Afghanistan’s interior ministry says a suicide bombing in Kabul has killed 18 people, including schoolchildren, and wounded several others.

“Young people of all ages are fed up”: Trump has awakened young voters, turned bystanders into activists and brought them to a common cause.

A federal lawsuit alleged that ACT discriminated against students with disabilities by flagging their scores and disability to colleges, and by excluding them from a program that allowed colleges to recruit for admissions and scholarships.

The nonprofit Orange County Human Relations Commission’s annual review cites 83 hate crimes, most of them based on race, national origin or ethnicity.

L.A. Unified has failed in its last two tries to pass a property tax increase to help schools. This time backers are more optimistic

Yolo County, trying to avoid sliding back into the purple tier of California’s color-coded reopening scale, issues new guidelines.

Despite Francis’ comments, Catholic doctrine’s stance on homosexuality hasn’t changed, and many say the Church still falls short.

When the Zogg fire tore through the town of Igo on Sept. 27, it took the lives of Karin King, Kenneth Vossen, Alaina Rowe McLeod and Feyla McLeod.

All personal care services — including massage and tattoo parlors — will now be allowed to resume modified indoor operations statewide.

Social supports are scarce for 269,000 homeless students in California, UCLA report finds.

COVID-19 hasn’t quite changed everything: In elections for the L.A. Board of Education, it’s still charter school advocates facing off against the teachers union. The stakes are high.

A $100-million donation from the Jay Pritzker Foundation will provide scholarships and emergency financial aid to state’s community college students.

California health officials will devote additional resources to curb coronavirus transmission rates in Riverside, L.A. and San Bernardino counties.

Health disparities translate into educational inequities in California during the pandemic.

Professors at UCLA and UC Berkeley join the public university system’s stable of Nobel Prize winners. Unfortunately, the state is shirking its funding responsibility.

The coronavirus outbreak has indelibly imprinted itself on life in Los Angeles — down to the composition of trash washing up on its beaches.

Proposition 14 asks voters to approve $5.5 billion in general obligation bonds for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, known as CIRM, for stem cell research.

Poll show parents are dissatisfied with distance learning and are most worried about how to keep their children motivated online and learning losses.

Jordan High in Watts, a school that has graduated generations of Black and Latino students, will drop its association with David Starr Jordan, the founding president of Stanford who figured prominently in the racist practice of eugenics.

Wildfires have burned an unprecedented swath of destruction in California this year, killing 31 people and scorching an area larger than Connecticut.

Here are their secrets. These are their habits. L.A. County’s ‘Teachers of the Year’ show how they run their classrooms amid the unprecedented upheaval in education.

Los Angeles parents filed a class action lawsuit against Los Angeles Unified, saying the district is failing to provide students with their constitutional right to an education during distance learning.

President Trump’s statement that the sale of TikTok would result in a $5-billion education fund to teach children the “real history of our country” came as a surprise to at least one of the companies involved.

The secretary of Education does the bidding of the president, who wants schools reopened no matter the danger to students and teachers.

The Orange County Board of Education’s legal battle to reopen school campuses gained steam this week when the state Supreme Court ordered Gov. Gavin Newsom to defend his authority to keep students home during the pandemic.

A majority of respondents said they opposed reopening K-12 schools for in-person instruction in fall 2020 amid the pandemic.

What’s on TV Friday, Aug. 21: ‘Bad Education’ on HBO; ‘Being Reuben’; Senate hearing on U.S. Postal Service on C-SPAN

School reopenings amid the coronavirus crisis have put education policy in the spotlight, but that’s just one area where Trump and Biden disagree.

Remember when LAUSD tried giving iPads to all students in 2013? We could have used that kind of thinking before the coronavirus pandemic.

Education instead of enforcement is a nice sentiment, but maybe it’s time to raise the stakes for those determined to flout public safety rules.