California State University, Northridge biology professor Steven Oppenheimer is celebrating 22 years of collaboration with Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) teachers to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research done by K-12 students in volume number 22 of “The...

David BinkleBy Matt Reynolds (CNS) – Once praised by former first lady Michelle Obama for introducing healthier school meals, a former Los Angeles Unified School District official pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of taking public money and funneling it into his culinary club. David Binkle,...

Last week I wrote about the obscene tuition costs to parents and students at such name-brand colleges as Berkeley and UCLA and the UC system in general. More obscene is where too much of the money is going. That would be to pay lots of money as a result of the outrageous behavior of college professors...

Santa Clarita Valley Schools are open today, unaffected by the Los Angeles Unified School District’s reaction to a terrorist threat it received by email from an IP address in Frankfurt, Germany. The decision to close 900 LAUSD schools was prompted by an “electronic threat” received early Tuesday...

[KHTS] – Two school districts, Newhall and Los Angeles Unified, are suing the Acton Agua Dulce Unified School District, claiming its May 13 approval of a charter application for the Albert Einstein Academy for the Letters, Arts and Sciences was illegal. An AADUSD board member denied the district...

Hopefully this (unintended) fourth commentary on this subject will be the last. I just like to finish what I start. This began as a story about the powers-to-be in the public sector telling taxpayers they must pay breathtaking salaries, plus perks, to get “the best” for the job at hand. All...

The point of the original commentary, “Paying For the Best” (Oct. 4) was to highlight the perpetual assertion by bureaucrats that the public pays for the best people to do their jobs. Purportedly for the citizens. Unfortunately it is proven time and time again that the “best”...

When I wrote last week’s commentary, “Paying for the Best,” I didn’t intend a Part 2. However, since the subject involves bureaucrats blowing taxpayer money, how could I possibly have been so short-sighted as not to think it would be an ongoing saga? The essence of Part 1 is as...

Have you noticed that when a governmental entity hires an employee, especially one with a title that indicates measurable responsibility, the public who pays the salary is told, “We had to pay this amount of salary to get the best?” We see it in our universities, social programs, administrators,...

[USDE, Aug. 6] – The Obama administration today approved eight California school districts (Fresno Unified, Long Beach Unified, Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Sacramento City Unified, San Francisco Unified, Sanger Unified, and Santa Ana Unified) for a one year district waiver from No Child...