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Microsoft warns US healthcare of threat actor using new ransomware

Besides BlackCat and Zeppelin, Vanilla Tempest is now using INC, too.

TechRadar

Blanket phone bans in schools are well-intentioned—but they could backfire

Abrupt bans could promote viewing phone usage as a reward rather than as a tool for collaboration, learning, and productivity.

Fortune

Los Angeles school board data breach sees data on thousands of students stolen

The FBI, CISA, and others, are investigating LAUSD security incident.

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Los Angeles Moves To Ban Smartphone Use In School

Education bosses in Los Angeles voted Tuesday to work towards a complete ban on the use of smartphones in the city's schools.

International Business Times

Cell phones and social media have been banned in LA public schools

The school board has yet to determine exactly how they will enforce the ban across the entire school day

The Independent UK

Los Angeles School Board investigating possible major data theft

Hacker is asking for $1,000 in exchange for a large LAUSD database.

TechRadar

Award-Nominated Documentary The Last Repair Shop Airs on ABC

Don't miss the broadcast debut of 'The Last Repair Shop,' an Oscar-nominated documentary exploring LAUSD's free musical instrument repair service. Directed...

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How do you discipline an in-school overdose? In some districts, you don't

Amid the rise in teen opioid overdoses, school systems from California to Maryland are changing their approach: Instead of zero tolerance, they're turning to rehabilitation.

WEKU

Naloxone can save students' lives, but not every school has it

A life-saving drug is gaining support for use in schools across the country, but only about half of the largest districts stock it

WEKU

LA Unified School District pitches in to save sea lions stricken by coastal toxic algae bloom

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District has helped set up a temporary outdoor “triage” center to care for the infllux of sea lions stricken by a deadly coastal algae blooms, officials announced during a press conference Tuesday.

The Orange County Register

LAUSD shakes up a highly praised academic initiative, angering parents and teachers

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles public school program that officials portrayed as a major success for helping struggling young students improve academically is being substantially dismantled by Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, who says it's too costly and not particularly effective.

Los Angeles Times

Positive repercussions from LAUSD strike

LA teachers went on strike in 2019. Four years later, they can point to the evidence of what went right

Salon

How often do teacher strikes happen?

In the past five years, public school employees have carried out 27 large-scale walkouts across the country.

USAFacts

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #54

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

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Los Angeles Times

As talks with teachers heat up, LAUSD budget shows a higher ending balance, with caveats

LOS ANGELES — For months, the Los Angeles Unified School District had been saying that, despite an ending balance of $4.93 billion for the current school year, the district could be at financial risk in the future.

Los Angeles Times

LA Unified School District and union workers who led massive strike reach tentative agreement

LOS ANGELES — A tentative agreement has been reached to end the protracted contract dispute that shut down Los Angeles public schools for three days, officials announced Friday afternoon.

Los Angeles Times

LAUSD schools to open Friday as strike negotiations continue with Mayor Bass' mediation

LOS ANGELES — As the Los Angeles Unified School District strike that has shut down campuses moved to its conclusion Thursday afternoon, schools will reopen Friday and Mayor Karen Bass will continue working to mediate the ongoing dispute.

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: Another LA schools strike — it's hell on families, but workers had no choice

Two hours before sunrise Tuesday, what should have been an empty sidewalk outside the LAUSD Van Nuys bus yard on Roscoe Boulevard was bustling.

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Capital & Main

LAUSD’s $4.9 Billion Question

The district’s massive cash reserve could cover the demands of striking workers. There is a way, but is there the will?

Los Angeles Times

LA schools' 'strike camps' promised child care relief — if parents could find them

LOS ANGELES — Second grader Kimberly Pedroza shivered outside the Los Angeles Zoo early Wednesday, her squeaky new rubber boots and thin plastic poncho barely shielding her from the sheets of chilly rain.

Los Angeles Times

Gustavo Arellano: He helped LAUSD's most 'invisible' workers go on strike, but Max Arias isn't done

LOS ANGELES — Southern California's latest storm didn't dampen the spirits of over 300 workers who gathered in front of a school bus yard in Van Nuys before dawn on Tuesday, the first day of a planned three-day strike.

Los Angeles Times

Mayor Karen Bass mediating LAUSD strike; union has not ruled out a second walkout at later date

LOS ANGELES — As a strike that has shut down Los Angeles public schools continues into a second day — and with the possibility of future walkouts a reality — Mayor Karen Bass has stepped in to talk with union and school district leaders to offer “assistance and support,” the…

Los Angeles Times

Massive strike shutters LAUSD as a sea of workers seeking higher wages rallies downtown

LOS ANGELES — The start of a massive three-day strike led by the lowest paid public school workers and supported by teachers shut down Los Angeles campuses Tuesday amid a fierce morning storm, sent parents scrambling for child care and meals and brought thousands of picketers to campuses and a…

Reason

Teachers Union Closes L.A. Schools Yet Again

Public sector unions squeeze final gains out of a district that's been bleeding students yet constructing expensive new buildings for two decades.

Los Angeles Times

Massive strike shutters LAUSD, canceling class for 420,000 students as picketers brave the rain

LOS ANGELES — A massive three-day strike calling for better wages and working conditions for some of Los Angeles public schools’ lowest-paid employees — bus drivers, custodians, special education assistants, cafeteria workers and others — began with a rainy start Tuesday, though picketers tried to keep the energy high despite…

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