VENICE, CA — Amid spiking coronavirus cases, Los Angeles Unified School District campuses will remain closed when classes resume next month, Superintendent Austin Beutner said Monday, defying President Donald Trump’s demand that students return to in-person instruction. “While the new school year will begin in August, it will not start […]

Students and community members marched June 16 from the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex to L.A. Unified headquarters, where they urged the district to defund school police. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) A uniformed and armed school police officer pepper-sprays students at a campus in Los Angeles. Is that excessive […]