PTA

Choi and O'Farrell in contentious battle for council seat

2013-05-14 22:57:00

Mitch O'Farrell is probably the only candidate running for Los Angeles City Council who can do a backward handspring, no problem. Before taking a job a decade ago as a field deputy in the office of Councilman Eric Garcetti, O'Farrell, 52, spent years as a...

Efforts to split Santa Monica-Malibu district gain new traction

2013-04-27 17:32:00

The PTA at Point Dume Elementary in Malibu is a fundraising machine. Parents collected about $2,100 per student in the 2009-10 school year, money that helped pay for music and art programs, as well as a dedicated marine science lab. But now the Santa...

Parents, students want to rename Cortines campus

2013-02-17 18:24:13

Sandy Hook massacre creates 'new reality,' LAPD chief says

2012-12-17 18:24:13

Proposition 38 crowds airwaves with second TV ad

2012-10-03 11:02:42

Molly Munger pulls ad critical of Jerry Brown's tax plan

2012-10-15 14:13:32

Rowland Unified School District unveils mobile app

2012-10-26 07:02:59

Yes on Proposition 30, no on Proposition 38

2012-10-02 00:00:00

The day Gov. Jerry Brown took office in 2011, the state budget was more than $25 billion in the red — the latest installment in a long-running drama of boom-and-bust budgeting. Since then, lawmakers have slashed billions of dollars from education,...

Irvine parents plead not guilty to planting drugs on PTA leader

2012-09-24 14:52:37

Executive worries about schools 'going off the cliff'

2012-10-10 00:00:00

Larry Vanden Bos has studied two November ballot propositions that will cost him money if they pass, and he's made up his mind on how he's going to vote for Propositions 30 and 38. Yes, on both of them. One is Prop. 30, Gov. Jerry Brown's tax-increase...

Mom accused in bizzare plot, Jill Easter, wrote book as Ava Bjork

2012-06-22 16:36:31

Pasadena City College official fired amid bribery probe

2012-06-20 16:35:53

PTA historian Kristi Chase, of Burbank, and Vice Principal Caroline Solberg, walk through the school's Thomas Jefferson garden to put a thank you sign on a fence before several Nickelodeon employees, who participated in Viacommunity Day, create a butterfly garden at Thomas Jeffereson Elementary

2013-04-19 00:00:00

State Comptroller Peter Franchot stopped at Fulton Elementary School on March 21 to present the Howard County Golden Apple award to longtime volunteer Lisa Schlossnagle. She is being honored for her work aiding teachers in the classroom, providing tutoring for students and serving as a PTA leader.

2013-03-20 00:00:00

Kindergartners Betsie Beck, left and Laura Kallman giggle at their glamorous new looks, courtesy of the makeup booth being readied for the March 1963 Oak Grove Elementary School PTA Family Fun and Mardi Gras. They are observed by third-grade "monster" Bruce Heppe, and a clown, Mrs. Robert C. Parks.

2013-03-12 00:00:00