The facilities contract employee last worked on the 28th floor of the district's downtown headquarters on March 13.

Schools have been told they must provide equal learning opportunities to students with disabilities, but the schools and parents say that's not happening during the coronavirus crisis.

It isn't for lack of trying by teachers that some students aren't able to fully access the LAUSD's online learning curriculum.

The Bell High School academic decathlon team, the L.A. area champions, studied bubonic plague and other epidemics before the coronavirus broke out.

California regulations may prevent thousands of nursing students from graduating, despite frantic effort to boost numbers of healthcare workers amid the pandemic.

California's early childhood care system has long been held together by women such as Tanya García, whose Hollywood duplex is home to two licensed day-care operations serving as many as 28 youngsters — among them the children of healthcare workers and public school teachers.

Citing the circumstances of the coronavirus crisis, United Teachers Los Angeles on Thursday called for a moratorium on new charter school approvals and a halt to new campus-sharing arrangements with charters.

El Camino Real Charter High School has won this year's state Academic Decathlon, narrowly edging out its perennial rival, Granada Hills Charter High School.

Because of the coronavirus outbreak, state public schools are unlikely to reopen, state schools Supt. Tony Thurmond said Tuesday.

Citing concerns over spreading the coronavirus, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced public schools will be closed for the rest of the academic year.

A former admissions official at USC will plead guilty to helping graduate students from China gain acceptance to the school by submitting doctored transcripts and fraudulent recommendation letters.

Acknowledging disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the UC and Cal State systems will ease admissions requirements for applicants.

During coronavirus school closures PBS offers distance learning on TV and online for students.

Coronavirus closures are giving school districts an opportunity to evaluate their online learning efforts and how important teachers are to those programs.

With schools closed because of the coronavirus, state schools Supt. Tony Thurmond told students and parents not to expect graduation ceremonies, even though the graduation itself should happen on schedule.

No LAUSD students will receive failing grades this spring during coronavirus school closures as many have limited access to online learning.

Persecution in Tibet: More schools use Chinese as the main teaching language, denying a people their culture. Dare to question the policy and land in prison.

Cal State will not require SAT or ACT test scores for admissions for 2021-2022 applicants, following a similar decision by UC, other colleges.

Coronavirus: While food banks struggle, L.A.'s schools are feeding the hungry

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday announced donations and other efforts to provide computers and broadband to students during the coronavirus pandemic, while saying "we continue to need to do much, much more."

Cal State Fullerton says that amid coronavirus uncertainty it will prepare to start the fall semester with online instruction. Will other campuses follow suit?

Schools in rural parts of the state are struggling not only to teach but to reach students. Many lack internet access and rely on schools for food.

Here's how college students can take advantage of three months of loan relief.

What will it take to reopen California schools? Gov. Gavin Newsom is looking toward an earlier start, possibly in late July, but there's not yet a plan for doing so.

L.A school officials say the school year will start Aug. 18, but they plan to take a cautious path forward to reopening campuses as worries persist over health and safety concerns amid the coronavirus outbreak.

As states start lifting stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus outbreak, workers will play a key role in determining if the economy bounces back.

The attorney general suggests that he's in sync with Trump's 'liberation' tweets.

Biden says to MSNBC interviewer Mika Brzezinski that an alleged assault on Tara Reade 'never happened.'

Big Ones deliver big lessons: Our best protection in disastrous times is community.

The coronavirus pandemic might be a tipping point for small medical practices, which have had trouble staying afloat.

My immigrant parents lost their jobs because of COVID-19. The CARES Act won't help because they're in the U.S. illegally. At 22, I was the breadwinner.

At Netflix, we've resumed production in some countries. And we're learning what safety will look like post-pandemic

Several medical trade groups are asking California Gov. Gavin Newsom for extraordinary immunity for their triage decisions.

While China introduces the 'digital yuan' in pilot program, U.S. struggles with old technology that prevents many people from getting coronavirus funds.

What happens when sacred values — human life and liberty — are pitted against each other?

California starts to reopen from coronavirus lockdown. But if we relax vigilance now, we could go back to shutdowns again.

The political push to reopen the economy has overlooked the working parents' dilemma.

The 2013 scheme by associates of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to close traffic lanes to punish a political opponent remains a scandal for the ages.

In a rare bit of reasonable regulatory activity by the Trump administration, new rules governing sexual assault accusations at colleges strike the right balance -- for the most part.

Jordan could win the adoration of white America, but only as long as he didn't talk about what it meant to be black in America.

The $2.2 trillion CARES Act was designed for small businesses like MOCA. Using relief funds would help to keep the staff at full employment.

Donate the cost of a canceled ticket, take an online dance class, buy a piece of fine art: Here are 22 ways to help artists weather the coronavirus storm.

Mister Cartoon, tagger turned tattooist to the stars, and Estevan Oriol, bouncer turned hip-hop documentarian, have a new Netflix film, 'LA Originals.'

L.A. Opera cancels "Pelléas and Mélisande" and "Rodelinda" but is still selling tickets for "The Marriage of Figaro" in early June.

Peter Sellars — opera director, spiritual thinker, optimist — reflects on changes triggered by coronavirus. Amid tragedy, what new life might come forth?

The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival launched a new online initiative where viewers can stream feature films, shorts and live music for free.

How can artists respond to the COVID-19 pandemic? Joaquin Phoenix's much-ridiculed Oscar acceptance speech actually suggests an answer.

"Riverdale" captures the aesthetic of John Cameron Mitchell's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." Whether the musical's queer politics are intact is another matter.

L.A. artist replaces the Statue of Liberty and Mr. Rushmore with migrant farmworkers, enslaved domestic workers and interned Japanese Americans.

Ticket sales were supposed to help theater and opera companies pay the costs of turning freelancers into staff members under AB 5. What now?