CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 3, 2011 | By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times
L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy criticized police for never notifying school officials about potential danger from a student accused of fatally stabbing his former girlfriend Friday at a South Gate high school. Abraham Lopez, 18, was charged Monday with 10 criminal counts, including fatally stabbing 17-year-old Cindi Santana, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said. Lopez, a South Gate resident, also faces counts for bringing weapons onto school grounds and assault charges for fighting and stabbing a student, a dean and a school police officer who rushed to Santana's aid. Their wounds are not life-threatening.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 20, 2010 | By Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times
They fought through fevers, colds, torn ligaments, dislocated shoulders and lazy mornings when their parents had to drag them out of bed. Still, they showed up — every school day, from kindergarten to senior year. Ten students from South Gate Senior High School will graduate this week with 13 years of perfect attendance. That's rare, both locally and nationally. Most schools have only one or two by senior year. The classmates recognized this week for their flawless records began grade school in 1997.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 6, 2008 | Howard Blume and Times Staff Writer
Los Angeles school officials are starting over on a high school project in Maywood because the preferred site is so contaminated by industrial chemicals that it would cost at least $22 million to clean up, which would delay construction by as much as six years. The cancellation, announced last week, means that the Los Angeles Unified School District will be forced to break its long-standing pledge to take all schools off year-round operation by 2012.
OPINION
May 14, 2008 | TIM RUTTEN
Every day, the Los Angeles Unified School District fails its tens of thousands of ambitious students, dedicated teachers and hardworking principals in so many ways that it's difficult to imagine how its elephantine bureaucracy could shamble into some new outrage. Difficult, but not impossible, because the LAUSD runs this city's schools about like the generals run Myanmar.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 5, 2005 | Erika Hayasaki, Times Staff Writer
For the second day in a row, students at South Gate High School boycotted classes Friday to protest a lack of teachers, books and classes. This time, they were met by administrators, district officials and a school board member who laid out a plan to satisfy some of those concerns. District officials said they took seriously the students' complaints and that they are moving fast to remedy them.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 4, 2005 | Erika Hayasaki, Times Staff Writer
Nearly 500 South Gate High School students held a peaceful sit-in on the campus football field Thursday to demand more teachers, courses and books in classrooms that have been strained since the school returned to a traditional September-June calendar this fall. South Gate High has been struggling since it switched from a controversial year-round schedule to the regular calendar this year.