A senior administrator at California's Claremont McKenna College resigned after admitting that for years he falsified SAT scores to publications such as U.S.

A group of protesters burst into the University of California Board of Regents meeting at UC Riverside today, bringing proceedings to a halt as they clamored

A Connecticut elementary school that put students in so-called "scream rooms" for timeouts will no longer use the rooms for some students following outcry from

A record 91,512 prospective students applied for admission to UCLA for this fall's semester, more than any other UC school, the university announced today.

The Los Angeles Unified Schools superintendent says the nation's second-largest school district is facing a $543 million budget shortfall for the next academic

In a competition for scholars and dollars... the LA Unified School District is considering an open enrollment plan that would allow parents to send their child

Future money for Head Start preschool programs across LA County may be in jeopardy. For the first time, LA County has to compete for millions of Federal grant

In spite of rising tuition costs, three University of California schools have been named among the nation's best public school bargains by Kiplinger's Personal

A crisis is brewing over state money to keep LA school buses on the road. The state is expected to cut $1.8 billion from schools next week - including $38

The Los Angeles Unified School District announced a tentative labor agreement with the union representing teachers today -- a pact aimed at giving more

Students angry over rising tuition fees and the pepper-spraying of peaceful protesters by University of California police converged on the southern edge of the

The California State University chancellor has ruled out a new vote on a bitterly contested tuition increase, despite pressure to reconsider it because it

Police arrested 14 Occupy UCLA protesters on campus, breaking up an encampment of 25 tents in Wilson Plaza.

The California State University Board of Trustees approved a 9 percent tuition hike for the 2012-13 school year today, despite a student protest that disrupted

A new report says the University of Southern California has more foreign students than any other American university.

There's an election on Tuesday for two seats on the La Cañada Flintridge school board. It's one thing to run. It's another to run at 20 years of age AND while

President Barack Obama urged thousands of enthusiastic college students Wednesday to make their voices heard,telling a boisterous crowd in Denver, "Young

The personal financial details of as many as 5,000 college students were temporarily laid bare for other students to view on the Education Department's direct

Hundreds of protesters, some of whom have been taking part in Occupy LA rallies, marched to LAUSD headquarters today to draw attention to teacher layoffs and

The LA Unified School District will improve instruction to the district's 220,000 English learners and ensure there are equitable resources in schools with

The results of a civil rights investigation that looked into the quality of education Los Angeles Unified School District provides to English learners and

The Anaheim Union High School District has stopped an incentive program designed to motivate students to improve state test scores by having high scoring

The Los Angeles Board of Education voted Tuesday to name a newly opened North Hills elementary school with a focus on the arts after Grammy Award-winning guitarist Carlos Santana.

Undergraduate tuition at the University of California could nearly double over the next five years under a budget plan set to be considered Thursday by school

Former gubernatorial candidate and eBay CEO Meg Whitman announced a $500,000 donation today to support math education at 10 Los Angeles schools.

California universities have gutted programs and hiked tuition in this tough economy, but they're not touching what critics call their "Diversity Machine" --

Former Los Angeles Lakers star Earvin "Magic" Johnson announced today he is partnering with a New York-based for-profit education company to help dropouts and

Students in many classrooms from Connecticut to California will receive a new accessory this fall when they return to school: an iPad, sometimes in lieu of

The Academic Performance Index score for Los Angeles Unified schools -- summarizing students' performance on a series of tests -- rose more than the statewide

The Los Angeles Unified school board has approved a proposal that would limit the ability of outside groups to run selected new and underperforming schools.

Backpack. Notebooks. Whooping cough shot?

If you haven't worried about back-to-school shots since your tween or teen was entering kindergarten, better put vaccines on the to-do

Some surprising results from California's STAR testing...students are scoring higher at schools controlled by the Los Angeles Unified School District, as

Wednesday was USC's annual "Move-In Day" and thousands of college freshmen were ready to call the university their new home. Phil Shuman was at the campus and

Students in Los Angeles County continued to show improvement on standardized tests, with higher percentages of them scoring advanced or proficient in math and

At the heart of the American spirit lies optimism... a can-do attitude that's resulted in some of this century's greatest innovations. Meet Salman Khan, an

The class of 2010 at Los Angeles County high schools had a little over a 20-percent dropout rate, above the statewide figure of around 18-percent, according to

There's a bill on the table in California that could change state law prohibiting using affirmative action in admitting students to colleges and universities.

Ohio University has been named the nation's number one party school in the 2011 Princeton Review survey released Monday. UCSB ranked number five on the list.

Here's the list of the nation's top party schools and top stone-cold sober schools, according to Princeton Review's survey of 122,000 students.

Researchers from Oxford University are seeking help unraveling mysterious Greek symbols scrawled on ancient papyri, unearthed in 1896  from an Egyptian trash

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy says he is suspending a new district policy that says homework can count for only 10 percent of a

Teachers at Los Angeles Unified charter schools are up to three times as likely to quit their jobs as their counterparts in traditional district schools,

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill making California the first state in the nation to add lessons about gays and lesbians to social studies classes in public

The University of California, one of the country's largest and most respected higher education systems, raised tuition Thursday by another 9.6 percent for the

The California State Board of Education has unanimously approved a new set of rules giving parents more power to force changes at poor-performing schools.

A California State University Board of Trustees committee today approved a 12 percent tuition hike for undergraduate students, a move officials said was

California lawmakers on Tuesday sent the governor a bill that would make the state the first requiring public schools to include the contributions of gays and

Six Los Angeles charter schools have been allowed to remain open because of reforms following a state test cheating scandal involving teachers and principals.

It's been two months since Dr. John Deasy took over as superintendent of LAUSD, the second largest school district in the country... with more than 800,000

Many schools might block Twitter in classrooms, but one Los Angeles area middle school teacher is using the popular social network to get his students excited

The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education has approved labor pacts with its employee unions and rescinded thousands of layoff notices sent to

The Los Angeles County Office of Education and Probation Department presented Operation Graduation 2011 on Monday night, a ceremony for about 270 high school

The Los Angeles Unified schools superintendent says he wants to halt the planned revocation of a charter school operator involved in a state testing scandal

The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a California policy that gives tuition breaks to illegal immigrantsto attend public colleges and universities.

The Los Angeles Unified School District needs critical reform in teacher evaluation, tenure and teaching assignment policies, according to a national study of

A Southern California school district has spent $105 million on a new state-of-the-art high school but now doesn't have the money to operate it.
 

The Los Angeles Unified school board has decided to reform how the district asks parents for their opinions on who should operate their local school after

The state Assembly has approved a bill that limits the number of charter schools in the state and bans nepotism in charter school hiring. It approved AB401 on

There aren't many resources for the blind in the Los Angeles area, and if the Van Nuys School for the Blind closes due to financial woes, there'll be even

Thousands of California teachers rallied in cities throughout the state Friday to demonstrate against the threat of deep education cuts and to appeal to

Thousands of teachers, school workers, students and parents are expected to descend on downtown Los Angeles today to take part in a "state of emergency" rally

The head of the California State University system warned that big tuition hikes may be unavoidable if the state doesn't extend temporary tax increases as

Parent groups joined California teachers Tuesday on the front lines of a weeklong series of rallies against the possibility of deep budget cuts to education,

Five parents were arrested Tuesday on misdemeanor charges of letting their children repeatedly skip school, despite warnings from school officials and police

Michelle Rhee, former chancellor for Washington DC public schools, brought her message of education reform to Southern California... and she didn't give Los

Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga has been awarded a multi-million dollar federal grant for a program called "Learning to Learn" that is going to help more

With layoffs and budget cuts impacting schools, many parents want to get involved to make sure their kids don't get shortchanged. That's why Long Beach has

The founders of a charter school in the San Fernando Valley will be arraigned next month on charges of embezzling more than $300,000.

Layoff hearings began today for thousands of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers facing the loss of their jobs at the end of the school year, with the

Students at California State University, Fullerton, are continuing their sit-in in the school's administration building in a protest over cuts to the

Students at California State University, Fullerton, are staging a campus sit-in they say will continue until the college president agrees to work with them on

While adults bicker and battle over budgets from Sacramento to Washington DC, an innovative program is teaching SoCal teenagers the right way to manage money.

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Ramon Cortines wrapped up his tenure leading the district today, passing the torch to his top deputy, John

The day after Jamie Oliver's show "Food Revolution" questioned the quality of food served at Los Angeles area schools, district officials insisted today that

College students and faculty in California and other states on Wednesday protested state budget cuts to higher education that could lead to higher tuition,

The Los Angeles Unified School District has taken the first step to revamp the teacher evaluation process. It includes the use of the controversial value added

The LA Unified School District is facing a deficit of over 400-million dollars this school year alone. With no solution from Sacramento in sight,

The parents of Crescendo charter school students are begging the Los Angeles Unified School District not to not punish their kids for something adults at those

The Compton Unified School District has again rejected a Parent Trigger Law petition to turn McKinley Elementary School into a charter school.

The private sector is joining forces with public educators to fix our failing education system. Both sides were at a national summit in Downtown Los Angeles to

This week marks the three-year anniversary of a successful program in Long Beach schools. The privately-funded College Promise program is an innovative way to

Hundreds of Inland Empire teachers are about to get layoff notices, as a result of the ongoing state budget crisis. In addition to the layoffs the District is

The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education today selected operators for a variety of campuses under the district's Public School Choice

The teachers who blew the whistle on administrators at the center of a cheating scandal at some Los Angeles charter schools are telling their story. It's

Even at a time of budget cuts and belt tightening, the item on the agenda of the Fontana Unified School District was shocking... the suspension of all sports

A Los Angeles charter school group fired its founder over a cheating scandal and has threatened to sue the school board to stay open. The schools'

More people are reacting to a cheating scandal in the Los Angeles Unified School District that led the school board to vote to shut down a number of charter

Kaplan Higher Education is being investigated by the Illinois Attorney General, adding to a growing list of for-profit colleges being scrutinized at the state

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is putting his criticism of President Barack Obama aside this week as he prepares to join him in Miami, Fla., for a tour of a high

A cheating scandal at a group of charter schools now spells the end of those schools, as the Los Angeles School District votes to shut them all down. It's not

A North Hollywood High School team won the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's regional Science Bowl and will travel to Washington, D.C., to compete in

A bunch of Long Beach elementary school students have made a pledge to go to college. They did it after a visit to Long Beach City College, which has an

Incoming Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent John Deasy said Thursday he is forming a new foundation to attract philanthropic donations to help

Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu was in town on Thursday and took part in a Black History Month event at Santee High School.

The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education today authorized layoff-warning notices for more than 5,000 employees, including more than 4,000

A pair of Washington lawmakers say they will seek to limit federal Education Department spending on an Obama administration plan designed to better track

The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education on Tuesday will consider authorizing layoff-warning notices for more than 5,000 employees, including

US women are nearly twice as likely as US men to earn a bachelor's degree by the time they are 23, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report released