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New America Media, News Report, Anna Challet
For Sandy Mendoza, advocacy manager of the Los Angeles-based organization Families in Schools, the difference between parent involvement and parent engagement could make or break California’s new school funding law...
As the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) begins to adopt the new education standards known as Common Core, it is being tested on how well it overcomes barriers to informing and involving parents in the effort to help students adapt and achieve...
About 400 middle and high school students from Long Beach Unified School District attended “Turn Up For Change,” a boys and men of color summit organized by a coalition of local organizations on Tuesday, Feb...
Backpack, check. Breakfast, check. Out the door you go and you’re thinking, “Today will be a good day.”..
A group of young teen chefs are learning how to eat and make healthy food through the Health Corps program at Cabrillo High School...
Just down the street from Cabrillo High School in West Long Beach is a fast-food paradise: McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Winchell’s, Carl’s Jr.,..
By VoiceWaves Guest Reporters Citlali Hernandez and Jocelyn Sanchez
[Ed.Note] VoiceWaves asked two Long Beach high school students to take a photo that depicts things or conditions at their school that they would like to see addressed and/or improved...
Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut...
Woodrow Wilson High School junior Eduardo Pacheco remembers the day he opened his favorite school lunch meal—lasagna—to find instead a soggy drape of watered cheese...
A student yells a profanity at the teacher.
A student puts down another student.
Dilemmas like these usually result in a standardized punishment method, like suspension or a pink slip...
Thanks to the voter-approved Local Control Funding Formula, parents, students and community members will be having more control over school spending and the decisions being made to improve schools in California...
New America Media, Commentary, Yrui Guan and Jimmie Fails
Ed. Note: Amid all the efforts to reform education, perhaps none promise as large of an impact as the growing use of technology in the classroom...
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