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Behind some of these smiling faces are grumbling tummies. Many of these children worry about what they're going to eat over the weekend.

Disabled women now get pregnant and give birth at the same rate as nondisabled ones — yet we do so in the face of stigma and provider ignorance.

L.A. community college and K-12 students in participating districts can ride Metro trains and buses for free under a new program starting this month.

Brace yourselves, students and parents. Your L.A. Unified School District campus may be reopening in April for the first time in potentially 13 months, but the place won't be quite the same. You may be prepared for the now-familiar COVID-19 countermeasures -- face mask requirements, social-distancing warning signs, hand sanitizer stations. But are you ready for a kindergarten classroom without shared toys, books, counting buttons, a reading chair, or even a circle-time rug? Parent Chaka Forman wasn't. 4:33 Support for LAist comes from "This make me sad," Forman said as he ...

Print Black students in Los Angeles County continue to face a multitude of barriers to an equitable education, including concentrated poverty, high suspension rates and housing insecurity, a UCLA report released Wednesday found. Researchers focused on 14 school districts in the county that serve at least 800 Black students to understand how various factors are leaving behind Black children, particularly those considered vulnerable. The report by the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools builds on a previous study that found schools serving Black students lacked critical resources —...