On a normal morning, the second floor of John Burroughs Middle School in Hancock Park would be bustling between classes, full of the sounds of students learning and teachers teaching. But on Tuesday, there was near silence as Assistant Principal Susan Armendariz walked down the empty hallway. “It…
The last time teachers went on strike, back in 1989, Alejandra Delgadillo was a fifth-grader at Trinity Street Elementary School. Her sons later attended the school in Historic South-Central too. The youngest moved on to middle school last year. Still, Delgadillo this week was among the first to…
A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Wednesday in Claremont, Calif., near Berkeley, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 4:42 a.m. Pacific at a depth of 6.8 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was two miles from Berkeley, three miles from Emeryville…
It’s been a heady two days for striking Los Angeles teachers and their union leaders. Rain failed to fizzle huge rallies. People brought free tacos and “Tofurky for Teachers” to the picket lines. And their strike became a cause celebre of liberal politicians such as Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren…
Telfair Elementary School Principal Jose Razo returned to his roots Tuesday, filling in as a pre-K teacher while the L.A. Unified strike continued. His text for the day: “How I Became a Pirate.” But first he asked his students whether anyone knew what a pirate does. “A pirate lives on the ocean…
The Hollywood American Legion Post gets a new building.
Danny Candelaria, of Seven Oaks, removes snow chains from his truck along Hwy 38, north of Forest Falls in the San Bernardino National Forest on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Lucas Feduska, 6, of Buena Park, plays in the snow with family along Hwy 38, north of Forest Falls in…
A Republican senator from the U.S. Olympic Committee’s home state of Colorado introduced potentially groundbreaking legislation on Tuesday that would create a 16-member panel selected by Congress to evaluate the USOC and recommend structural and policy changes for an organization whose future has been called into question in the wake of the backlash over its…
Authorities detained a 30-year-old Citrus College student suspected of threatening to “shoot up” the school on Tuesday, leading to a more than six-hour lockdown of the Glendora campus. The incident began about 11:15 a.m., when Terrell Lee Bennett called 911 saying he was on his way to the college,…
As the first Los Angeles teachers’ strike in 30 years stretched into its second day, attendance ticked up slightly — about 20,000 more students went to school Tuesday — but remained at about a third of the district’s total enrollment. The school district’s top official lamented that the walkout…
