Howard Blume

A court order giving California teachers full freedom to tell parents about their child’s gender identity at school is on hold after an appellate panel blocked it from going into immediate effect. Had the three-member panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court... See more

In his late December decision, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez concluded that federal law allows school employees to notify parents of "gender incongruence." School staff members, he wrote, are free to make a personal decision to contact a parent with i... See more

A CAREER CLOSE TO HOME Robert Docter in front of Darby Avenue School, across from his Northridge home in 1992. He taught at Cal State Northridge. Robert Docter, an L.A. school board member in the 1970s who successfully pushed to end corporal punishment an... See more

KAYLA BARTKOWSKI Los Angeles Times AN AERIAL view of the Palisades Charter High School football field this week. Palisades Charter High School students are scheduled to return to their campus in January, one year after the Palisades fire devastated their ... See more