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The Departures Educational Program teaches multimedia production tools and helps students to develop their voice.
The Board of Regents have officially approved a 32% rate hike in undergraduate tuition, generating protests at UCLA that resulted in 12 student arrests.
The Obama administration is upset with certain teacher-friendly California education policies that could keep the state from scarfing up some federal education money.
During one our final meetings with the students from the Los Angeles Leadership Academy, we decided to create a makeshift video confessional.
Latinas now make up nearly half of L.A. Unified's board of education! I was oblivious to the obvious in the school district press room while covering the new board's swearing in on Wednesday.
The L.A. Times polled Angelenos on their feelings about local government and life--which are decidedly mixed.
"Shortchanging education for quick budget fixes," the text concludes, "is a short-sighted approach that could seriously undermine California's economic future."
Councilman Ed Reyes puts on his boots and heads to the river for a portrait and an interview.
The kids got their hands and feet literally dirty at the L.A. River, but now they needed to master multimedia story-telling.
The kids working on the next Departures are learning the L.A. River is a place where graffiti speaks, and birds mingle between the moss and storm drains.
We needed partners like FoLAR, Adobe and the Los Angeles Leadership Academy to produce Departures.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger assures California's school districts that they'll get their federal stimulus money, but some people doubt he'll be able to ride out looming state budget crises without educational cuts.