Education Headlines

• Union invites teachers to the bargaining table with LAUSD

  After meeting with Los Angeles Unified officials for the first round of face-to-face contract negotiations Thursday, United Teachers Los Angeles announced plans to change its bargaining tactics.

  July 25, 2014

• Hacienda La Puente Unified spends $4 million to spruce up schools this summer

  Families will find newly painted schools trimmed in the school’s colors. The brightly colored elementary schools come in the primary colors that students find in their Crayola crayons.

  July 25, 2014

• New Chula Vista charter school has art focus

  A charter school set to open its doors later this summer will use art projects as teaching tools by incorporating music, painting, poetry and more into core subject lessons.

  July 25, 2014

• San Ysidro rescinds pay cuts made last year

  The governing board of the San Ysidro School District voted Thursday to roll back pay cuts made last year, calling the action an issue of fairness to the more than two dozen employees in management, supervisory and confidential positions who took an 8 percent reduction in salary and compensation in November.

  July 25, 2014

• Summer fix-ups for aging facilities add up for Modesto schools

  This has been a fix-up summer for Modesto City Schools, with dozens of projects long delayed by the recession going on all at once.

  July 25, 2014

• Judge tentatively allows 2 charter schools to keep operating

  Two charter schools ordered shut down by L.A. Unified amid questions over their financial management will be allowed to continue operating for now, according to a tentative ruling made public Thursday.

  July 25, 2014