Benefit for Silver Lake's Pablove Shutterburgs Saturday

Student art will be on display, and KROQ's Kat Corbett and KCRW's Chris Douridas will DJ.

The Pablove's Shutterbugs launched in 2010 to teach photography to children living with cancer. A free gallery show and auction Saturday afternoon will showcase student work and raise money for the future. Students, family, friends and suprise celebrities are expected. KROQ DJ Kat Corbett and KCRW's Chris Douridas will DJ, with free food and drink for all. The event takes place from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Kopeikin Gallery at 2766 S. La Cienega Blvd. One hundred percent of auction and print proceeds benefit the Pablove Shutterbugs program.

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Update: Aide at Westlake School Charged With Lewd Act Worked at Second Local School

LAUSD officials have confirmed the man worked at both Gratts Learning Academy for Young Scholars on Lucas Avenue and the Los Angeles Academy of Arts & Enterprises.

LAPD Rampart officers were among those who arrested Jorge Dominguez at his home Thursday morning. Dominguez, 25, was arrested and subsequently booked for one lewd act on a child. His bail was set at $100,000. Dominguez most recently served as a part-time teacher's aide at the Gratts Elementary School, sometimes also known as the Gratts Learning Academy for Young Scholars. According to an LAPD release, Dominguez also coached after-school sports at Gratts, and, according to the Los Angeles Times, at a second school, the Los Angeles Academy of Arts & Enterprises, in a Youth Policy Institute funded program. The Los Angeles Academy is a charter school, authorized, but not managed by LAUSD. Gratts is located on Lucas Street just below Third in …

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Photos: It's Dense at Echo Park's Chicken Corner

Local photographer Gary Leonard took to the air to shoot the new condos going up at Echo Park and Morton avenues.

Drive up Echo Park Avenue these days, and you can't miss it. The 36 on Echo project is going full tilt, with the wood framing firmly in place. The project has been controversial from the start. Opponents fear the density, the traffic and the additional development it may bring to the area. Gary Leonard's photos shot Sunday high above the project and Echo Park seem to make the same argument. Do you agree?

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Anthea Raymond

11:53 am on Friday, May 11, 2012

@Susan, ReRe: According to 36 on Echo website, there will be a grand opening for the project NEXT Saturday, the same day that the Art Walk will take over Echo Park Avenue. Could be interesting!   more ›

U.S. News & World Report Releases High School Rankings

According to the publication, 51 schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District were awarded gold, silver or bronze medals in their rankings.

U.S. News and World Report released its rankings of the nation's top high schools Tuesday, and you can search to see how schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District stack up. The study assigns a college readiness index number to each school, coupled with API scores. According to the report, LAUSD scores a college readiness rating of 34.3 and an average API of 645. But 51 schools in the district were awarded medals. The top-ranked school in the district is the gold-medal winning Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, which posts a 70.8 college readiness index number and an API of 884, which also means that it has reached its state-mandated goal. Traveling farther east to find ranked high schools, Camino Nuevo High School on Temple …

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Community Split on Building Baseball Fields in Los Feliz

The plan would put two youth league baseball fields in the Crystal Springs picnic and recreation area in Griffith Park. Opponents say nothing new should be built in the park.

Update: Map of New LAUSD District 5 Boundaries

The attached document shows the final boundaries of LAUSD District 5 approved Wednesday by the Los Angeles City Council.

  The final boundaries of LAUD District 5 are not exactly what Bennett Kayser had hoped for, but they come darn close. Kayser, of course, had wanted to unite Echo Park in one district by including the upper reaches of Echo Park in Elysian Heights. Those remain in District 2, currently represented by LAUSD president Monica Garcia. District 2 also retains East Los Angeles's Garfield High, though in the final drawing John Marshall High in Los Feliz shifts back to Kayser. See details in the map above.

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City Council Approves Revised LAUSD Districts

On a vote of 9 to 2, the Los Angeles City Council approved maps that incorporated changes proposed to the Chief Legislative Analyst's Office.

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday morning to approve a final redistricting map for the Los Angeles Unified School District's trustees. The vote was 9-2, with Bernard Parks and Jan Perry against. The final map differs from the one recommended by the LAUSD Redistricting Commission in significant ways, including its handling of the boundaries for LAUSD District 5, currently held by Bennett Kayser. Read more about those earlier boundaries here. According to Kayser's chief of staff Sara Bradshaw, the map brings Logan Elementary School back into District 5, along with the area around the Bright Spot restaurant. Echo Park's Elysian Heights area, however remains in District 2, along with Garfield High School, which Kayser had also …

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Bennett Kayser Shares his Views about LAUSD

The School Board member and Silver Lake resident talks about Prop. 39, Redistricting and District plans to relax minimum credits for high school students to boost graduation rates.

  If your child goes an LAUSD school—or if you have an interest in the nation’s second-largest public school network—there are three things to note about Bennett Kayser, the newest member on the District’s Board of Education. The first is that he opposes Proposition 39, the 2000 ballot initiative that, among other things, allows charter schools to share unused public school property. The second thing about Kayser is that he does not agree with the new Redistricting maps that sever in half several of the communities in our local District 5. And finally, Kayser opposes any lowering of the bar for high schools students to graduate without meeting the grade requirements to gain admission into a four-year university or a two-year state college…

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Update: Neighborhood Clean Up Rescheduled for June 11

The fifth graders at Clifford Street Elementary School are planning a neighborhood clean up. It's a final project in their Full Circle, ecology education, program.

Update: Early Friday, organizers rescheduled this event for June 11. Keep an eye on the Patch for details. We apologize for any inconvenience. Earlier: Clifford Street Elementary School fifth graders will host a community clean up from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday, April 20. It's the closing project of their eight-week Full Circle program. Full Circle uses ecology as a springboard to help children understand sustainability, diversity and interdependence. It is the centerpiece program of the Wildwoods Foundation, a local group that educates young people about nature. Locals of all ages are invited to attend. Meet at the school entrance at 2150 Duane St. 90039. Click through for more info about the event here and to find out about Mayberry …

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