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Articles by Sarah Favot

Sarah Favot is a writer/reporter for LA School Report and The 74 specializing in data-driven, investigative, and political reporting.

The Number of Homeless Students Attending Los Angeles Public Schools Grew by 50 Percent Last Year

Sarah Favot

LA Charter Schools Win Policy Changes That Give Them More Clarity, Avoid Most Denials

Sarah Favot

Las Vegas Shooter Attended LAUSD; Several Educators Among the Victims

Sarah Favot & Mike Szymanski

Ref Rodriguez Resigns in Los Angeles: Why the School Board President Stepped Down

Sarah Favot & Mike Szymanski

Prime-Time XQ: Inside the ‘Super School’ Telethon That Called on Americans to Rethink the Concept of High School

Sarah Favot

Summit Charter Schools Launch America’s First Teacher Residency Training Program for Personalized Learning

Sarah Favot

Los Angeles Schools Pay a Price for Absent Students: How Rising Chronic Absenteeism Cost LAUSD $45 Million

Sarah Favot

UCLA Steps In to Rescue a Struggling Middle School — and Creates a Model for Change in South Los Angeles

Sarah Favot

Nick Melvoin, Los Angeles’s Newest Board Member, Lays Out His Priorities for America’s 2nd Biggest District

Sarah Favot

Education Reformers Sweep Los Angeles’s School Board Elections, Setting Up Pro-Charter Majority

Sarah Favot

What’s Really Fueling the L.A. School Board Race — the Most Expensive Board Contest in U.S. History

Mike Szymanski & Sarah Favot

As Outside Spending & Attacks Reach All-Time High, LA School Board Candidates Say Race Is Out of Their Control

Mike Szymanski & Sarah Favot

Has the President of the Los Angeles School Board Abandoned His Re-election Campaign?

Mike Szymanski & Sarah Favot

New Student Data Show That Half of Graduating Seniors in LA Not Eligible for California’s Public Universities

Sarah Favot

In California, a New Push for Teacher Tenure Reform as State Bill Would Extend Probation to 3 Years

Sarah Favot

The Contender: Nick Melvoin’s Plan for Combating Misinformation — and Unseating LA’s School Board President

Sarah Favot

LA School Board Surprise: Why a Pivotal Election May Now Hinge on the Man Who Finished Fourth in the Primary

Sarah Favot

The L.A. School Board Race Heats Up With Board President Now Headed for May Runoff

Sarah Favot

The Best School Board Money Can Buy: What’s at Stake for Los Angeles’s Kids in Tuesday’s Primary

Sarah Favot

Los Angeles School Board Race, 2017: Meet the 13 Candidates Running in Tuesday’s Election

Mike Szymanski & Sarah Favot

Los Angeles: Almost Half of All 2016 LAUSD Graduates Used Credit Recovery or Makeup Classes

Sarah Favot

Saving L.A.’s Kids From Failing Schools: Behind the Scenes with Michelle King and Myrna Castrejon

Sarah Favot

East LA Students March in Protest as LAUSD Calls for Calm

Sarah Favot

Tales of Hope and Desperation for Better Schools at The 74/LA School Report Town Hall

Sarah Favot

Vergara-Inspired School Choice Lawsuit in Connecticut Turns Focus to Federal Courts

Sarah Favot

With Vergara’s Demise, Heat’s on California Legislature to Take up Teacher Tenure

Sarah Favot

Vergara v. California: Inside the State Supreme Court’s Refusal to Hear the Teacher Tenure Case

Sarah Favot

74 Interview: Education Advocate Myrna Castrejon on Building Great Schools for LA’s Poorest Kids

Sarah Favot

Nonprofit Launches Bold Initiative to Give 160,000 Low-Income Kids in L.A. Access to Better Schools

Craig Clough & Sarah Favot

Education Reform Wins Big in California, as Education Candidates Sweep Primary Elections

Sarah Favot

As Education Policy Divides California’s Democrats, Record Spending Floods State’s Primary

Sarah Favot