LAUSD’s refusal to heed teachers’ concerns shows its skewed priorities

“La educaciĆ³n no se vende, se defiende.” Education isn’t sold, it’s defended. That was just one of the many signs teachers carried at Friday’s United Teachers Los Angeles rally in front of City Hall. UTLA has been negotiating with the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education for the past 20 months about how […]

Orientation needs an update to support new Bruin transfers as much as freshmen

I came to Transfer Student Orientation at 7 a.m. on a Friday, wide-eyed, bushy-tailed and ready to start my journey as a Bruin. Fast forward 10 hours and I was frantically running around the Hill, hair wild, eyes bloodshot, laptop in one hand, my phone in the other, scouring Google Maps to figure out where […]