Los Angeles Unified School District
California school district serving almost all of Los Angeles and surrounding areas
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| June 14 2024 | AllHere Education faced financial difficulties and furloughed its staff, leading to the cessation of the Ed chatbot's operations by LAUSD. |
| March 20 2024 | LAUSD launched Ed, an AI chatbot developed in collaboration with AllHere Education to support academic recovery and student performance following the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2023 | El Camino Real High School wins the United States Academic Decathlon National Championship. |
| 2023 | LAUSD increased its budget to $12.6 billion and continued to serve a large student population with 24,769 teachers and 49,231 other employees. |
| September 2023 | LAUSD dropped its COVID-19 vaccine mandate policy. |
| March 24 2023 | After the three-day strike, school resumed. In the afternoon, LAUSD and SEIU99 announced a 'historic deal' that met SEIU99's demands, including a wage increase and additional benefits. |
| March 21 2023 | Service Employees International Union, Local 99 (SEIU99) initiated a three-day strike against Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), demanding a 30% raise. Unified Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) also joined the strike to support their upcoming labor negotiations. |
| January 2023 | A lawsuit was brought challenging the District's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. |
| 2022 | Alberto M. Carvalho began serving as Superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District. |
| 2022 | LAUSD served 565,479 students, including 11,795 early childhood education students and 27,740 adult students, with a budget of $10.7 billion. |
| October 2 2022 | Vice Society released stolen data related to the September ransomware attack. LAUSD superintendent Alberto Carvalho maintained the district's stance of not paying the ransom, and the district offered credit monitoring services to individuals whose personal information was potentially compromised. |
| September 5 2022 | Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) was hit by a significant ransomware attack over the Labor Day weekend, disrupting email, computer systems, and applications. The Russian-speaking ransomware group Vice Society claimed responsibility for the attack, targeting key digital infrastructure and preventing access to systems like Google Drive and Schoology. |
| February 22 2022 | LAUSD Board dropped the outdoor mask requirement after Los Angeles County relaxed masking rules. |
| January 2022 | District announced students would return to campus, requiring masks and weekly COVID testing. |
| December 9 2021 | Alberto M. Carvalho accepted the position of permanent superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District, succeeding interim superintendent Megan K. Reilly after Austin Beutner's resignation. |
| August 2021 | District enacted a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for staff, vendors, contractors, volunteers, and affiliated charter schools. |
| February 2021 | LAUSD experienced a previous, less successful ransomware attack attempt, which preceded the more significant September 2022 breach. |
| 2020 | LAUSD closed its schools to combat the spread of COVID-19, with the closure extended to May 1 as the virus worsened. |
| March 2020 | The new election date change took effect, with the primary election held in March and the runoff in November. |
| 2019 | Granada Hills Charter High School wins the United States Academic Decathlon National Championship. |
| 2019 | Completed construction of three employee housing complexes: Norwood Learning Village, Selma Community Housing complex in Hollywood, and Sage Park Apartments, totaling 185 units. |
| January 22 2019 | UTLA and LAUSD reached a negotiated settlement after an all-night negotiating session, ending the six-day strike. The agreement included a 6% pay raise for teachers, class size reductions, commitment to full-time nurses and librarians, and the establishment of 30 community schools. |
| January 14 2019 | 30,000 Los Angeles teachers began a citywide strike, the first teacher's strike in Los Angeles since 1989. The strike involved teachers and supporters holding rallies around the city, including at City Hall and LAUSD headquarters. |
| 2018 | El Camino Real High School wins the United States Academic Decathlon National Championship. |
| October 2 2018 | Rene Tenas pled no contest to two felony counts of lewd acts upon a child at Hart Street Elementary School. He was sentenced to five years in prison for sexually abusing seven students. The Los Angeles Unified School District agreed to pay $14.7 million in the settlement. |
| 2017 | The non-profit The Israel Group submitted a complaint to LAUSD regarding a controversial teacher workshop on Islam and the Arab World presented by Fellowship for Reconciliation (FORUSA), which was criticized for promoting pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel perspectives. |
| 2017 | Granada Hills Charter High School wins the United States Academic Decathlon National Championship. |
| 2016 | Granada Hills Charter High School wins the United States Academic Decathlon National Championship. |
| 2015 | Ref Rodriguez begins serving on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education |
| 2015 | The LAUSD board of education announced they were exploring possible litigation against Apple regarding the iPad program. |
| 2015 | Granada Hills Charter High School wins the United States Academic Decathlon National Championship. |
| December 15 2015 | Los Angeles Unified School District received an emailed bomb threat that led to a district-wide school closure. The threat was later determined to be a hoax by Los Angeles police, traced to an IP address in Frankfurt, Germany. Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines, who had recently submitted his resignation, returned to authority to manage the crisis. |
| March 2015 | Voters approved Charter Amendment 2 in the Los Angeles City Council and School Board elections, allowing the LAUSD Board of Education to change their election dates to even-numbered years. |
| 2014 | The district implemented a policy to decriminalize school discipline, shifting the handling of minor offenses from law enforcement to school staff, in response to disproportionate arrest rates for Black students who were six times more likely to be arrested or ticketed compared to white students. |
| 2014 | El Camino Real High School wins the United States Academic Decathlon National Championship. |
| December 2014 | The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized records from LAUSD related to the iPad program. |
| October 16 2014 | John Deasy resigned as Superintendent following mounting criticisms and the failed iPad program. He remained in the district with a special assignment until the end of the year, receiving approximately $60,000 in pay. |
| 2013 | Deasy introduced the My Integrated Student Information System (MISiS), which was criticized for randomly disappearing grades and assignments. |
| 2013 | Superintendent John Deasy announced a project to provide iPads to all students in the District, which was criticized for being more expensive than other tablets. In the same year, his contract was extended to 2016. |
| 2013 | Granada Hills Charter High School wins the United States Academic Decathlon National Championship. |
| 2013 | Evidence was found showing improvement in district dropout and graduation rates. |
| 2012 | By the 2012-13 school year, the number of year-round schools had dramatically reduced to only three schools, marking a significant shift in the district's scheduling approach. |
| 2012 | Granada Hills Charter High School wins the United States Academic Decathlon National Championship. |
| 2012 | LAUSD admitted 16,000 new students into magnet schools from a pool of 66,000 applications, highlighting the high competitiveness of these specialized educational programs. |
| December 18 2012 | A jury awarded a $23 million settlement to a 14-year-old boy who was repeatedly molested by his fifth-grade teacher Forest Stobbe at Queen Anne Place Elementary School. Stobbe was sentenced to 16 years in prison after pleading no contest to lewd acts and sexual abuse. |
| January 31 2012 | Police arrested Mark Berndt, a veteran Miramonte Elementary School teacher, on 23 counts of lewd conduct involving sexually abusive acts with students. The entire school staff was subsequently replaced. |
| 2011 | Los Angeles Unified School District reported a student demographic breakdown, with Hispanic students comprising 72.3% of the total student population. |
| 2011 | Granada Hills Charter High School wins the United States Academic Decathlon National Championship. |
| 2010 | El Camino Real High School wins the United States Academic Decathlon National Championship. |
| 2010 | Superintendent Ramon Cortines continued efforts to reform the Facilities Services Division, with persistent challenges from union complaints and audit investigations. |
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