Los Angeles Unified school superintendent Alberto Carvalho and a team of officials visited the homes of chronically absent students last month for the district’s fifth iAttend Student Outreach Day, an initiative to promote daily attendance. The program was introduced after LAUSD’s chronic absenteeism rate skyrocketed to 40% for the 2021-22 school year after students returned...

A crowd of demonstrators against LGBTQ+ curriculum and another showing support rallied outside of the LAUSD headquarters Tuesday where a Board of Education meeting was to be held. Though there was nothing on the school board agenda about LGBTQ+ issues, in June the LAUSD school board unanimously approved a resolution that encourages all schools to...