Tag: Los Angeles Unified School District
L.A. Unified and Others Learn Elementary Lesson in Contract Law After $2.5M Ruling and Seven Year Legal Battle
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. /Massachusetts Newswire - National News/ -- A small business construction subcontractor emerged victorious from a hard fought seven-year legal battle when $3.2 million in services, labor and materials were not paid by the Los Angeles Unified School District, their contractor, and their Insurance Bonds company. Nowland Law, a business litigation firm, secured a ruling in favor of the plaintiff December 9th, 2022 for work that the plaintiff performed in 2015.
LA Unified School District Appears Poised to Weaken Public Oversight on a Crucial Public Health Issue
LOS ANGELES, Calif. /Massachusetts Newswire - National News/ -- On Tuesday, November 15, 2022 a majority of the Los Angeles Unified School Board voted to begin a process some fear would dismantle an oversight Committee that has been in place for decades ensuring the globally celebrated environmental policy was implemented according to the district's policy and California's Healthy Schools Act. In its place the Board is recommending establishing an Ad Hoc Committee, says celebrated children's environmental health non-profit California Safe Schools.
California Safe Schools Celebrates its 22nd Anniversary and Earth Day
LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 27, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- March 30, 2020 marked the 22nd anniversary of California Safe Schools (CSS) a celebrated children's environmental health and justice coalition founded by Robina Suwol in 1998 after grade school students, including Robina's two sons, were sprayed with the herbicide Princep, as they headed to class.
Arts Nonprofit, Dream A World Education, Expands from Classroom to Television
LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 20, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Dream A World Education, an LAUSD and Hawthorne School District provider of arts and social-emotional education working in areas of extreme poverty, has turned school closures into an opportunity to move their artists from classrooms to television and virtual recyclable programming.
Safe Schools in California: Los Angeles Unified School Districts Outstanding Plant Managers Celebrated
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 14, 2018 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- California Safe Schools celebrated the outstanding efforts of more than 800 Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Plant Managers and their supervisors at four luncheons honoring elementary, middle school, and high school Plant Managers for their exceptional efforts in implementing the most stringent school pesticide policy in the nation for the past 20 years.
On California Safe Schools Coalition’s 19th Anniversary, it Recognizes L.A. Unified School District Adoption of Groundbreaking Pesticide Policy
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 7, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- California Safe Schools Coalition (CSS) commends the pioneering achievement of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second largest school district in the nation, spanning 740 square miles, 28 cities and more than 1,000 sites, for early adoption of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Policy in 1999. CSS was formed in 1998, after its founder's child was accidentally sprayed by pesticides by a Los Angeles Unified gardener on his way into an LAUSD elementary school, a pivotal event for LAUSD's IPM Policy formation.
California Safe Schools Honors 2017 Earth Day Heroes for Kids’ Environmental Health and Safety
LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 20, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- In honor of Earth Day 2017, California Safe Schools celebrates all of the heroes who strive every day to protect our environment. This year, CSS is honoring the following 2017 Earth Day Heroes with awards and commendations for their exceptional efforts to protect human health and Mother Earth.
