The Education Blog

The Los Angeles Unified School District has produced some of the biggest academic gains in the district this year. The school scored a 638 on the most recent state Academic Performance Index, which measures schools and districts on student test scores in math, English and other subjects, while the State’s target was 800. The Los [...]

A fight between two gangs — Black and Hispanic — escalated into a campus wide brawl involving around 600 students at Los Angeles Locke high school this week. The fight quickly spread throughout the campus and it was difficult for the police to distinguish between those fighting and those trying to avoid the mayhem. The [...]