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Articles by Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Esmeralda Fabián Romero is a former senior reporter at LA School Report and a contributor to The 74.

L.A. Parents in Desperate Straits with Distance Learning Say It’s Time for the Most Vulnerable Students to be Back in School

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Feeling ‘Devastated and Isolated,’ L.A. Parents Cope With Prolonged School Closures While Trying to Hold On to Their Jobs, Homeschool Their Kids

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Startling Science Scores in California: First-Ever Results Show 4 in 5 Low-Income Black and Latino Students Are Falling Short of New State Standards

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

How Khan Academy Used a Successful Experiment With California’s Long Beach Unified to Launch District Partnerships Across the Country

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

How One Los Angeles English Teacher Is Bringing His Own Experiences to His Push for Greater Educator Diversity Across the City

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Parent Engagement, Bilingual Education and Immigrant-Friendly Schools Are Crucial to Student Success in LA, Where 60% of Children Have at Least One Immigrant Parent, New Report Finds

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Teacher Spotlight: KIPP’s Nicole Tavera on Making Testing Less Stressful and Science More Fun to Learn

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Teacher Spotlight: Los Angeles’s Rita Ontiveros on Being a ‘Positive Rock’ for Low-Income and Homeless Students — and What’s Really Happening in a Kindergarten Classroom

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

74 Interview: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Freedom Scholarships, Why Parents Deserve More School Options & the ‘Noisy Status Quo-Protecting Cabal’ Fighting Her Agenda

Esmeralda Fabián Romero & Laura Greanias

Study of Los Angeles Schools Shows Only 2 in 10 Low-Income Black and Latino Students Are Enrolled at a School That’s Successfully Closing the Achievement Gap

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Closing California’s Achievement Gap: Ryan Smith, Co-Chair of New Golden State Initiative, Talks About What It Will Take to Bring Equity to Every Classroom

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

LA School District Reorganization Looks to Empower Principals, Group Schools by Communities and Dethrone the Central Office

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Ahead of Tuesday’s School Board Election in Los Angeles, Finalists Goldberg and Repenning Find Little to Disagree About at Key Campaign Forum

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Survey Shows 3 in 4 Californians Support Charters as Alternatives for Low-Income Families; Majority Are Concerned About Federal Policy and Undocumented Students

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

3 California NAACP Chapters Break With State and National Leaders, Calling for Charter Moratorium to Be Overturned

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Inside the L.A. ‘Parcel Tax’ Debate: Many Parents and Education Advocates Agree Schools Need More Money — They Just Don’t Trust LAUSD to Be a ‘Good Steward’ of the Funds

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Q&A: Heather Repenning Enters a Pivotal School Board Runoff in Los Angeles With Vows to Address the Need ‘to Write a New Chapter of Change’ at LAUSD

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

A Special School Board Election in L.A. Raises Questions of Fair Representation and Improving Schools for Low-Income Latinos

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

The Swing Issues in the Pivotal L.A. School Board Race: Parents Use Candidate Forums to Talk Safety & Quality Teaching as Students Emphasize College Preparedness

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

After Charter Moratorium Vote, Los Angeles Families Voice Anger, Betrayal, Disappointment — and Vow to Fight Back

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

After Thousands Rally for Charter Schools in Downtown Los Angeles, School Board Asks State for Temporary Moratorium

Taylor Swaak & Esmeralda Fabián Romero

‘The Fortunes of African-American Children Do Not Improve on a Picket Line’ — Black Pastors in Los Angeles Call on Teachers Union to Keep Negotiating

Esmeralda Fabián Romero & Laura Fay

Cross the Picket Line? Stay Home From School? Anxious Parents Quietly Face a Multitude of Fears in Ongoing L.A. Teacher Strike

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

After Nearly 2 Years of Failed Talks, Teachers Go on Strike in Los Angeles for First Time in 30 Years

Taylor Swaak, Esmeralda Fabián Romero & Laura Fay

10 Things Parents Need to Know About Their Schools During a Los Angeles Teacher Strike

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

‘Parents Zero, Students Zero’ — L.A. Teacher Strike a No-Win Situation, Say Families of the District’s Most Vulnerable Students

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

18 Key Education Stories to Watch This Year (According to the Experts): Congress, Courts, Choice, Classroom Innovations & More

Beth Hawkins, Mark Keierleber, Carolyn Phenicie, Esmeralda Fabián Romero, Kate Stringer & Taylor Swaak

A Holiday Surcharge for L.A. Schools: As Immigrant Families Leave the Country for an Early Christmas, Thousands of Kids Go Missing From Classrooms, Costing City Millions in Revenue

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

A Mother-Turned-Education Activist Reflects: What I’ve Learned From 25 Years of Advocating for Latino Parents

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

L.A. District Waives $56 Fee That Parents Had to Pay for Fingerprinting, Background Checks So They Could Volunteer in Kids’ Schools

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

EDlection2018: Education Reformer Marshall Tuck Has Narrow Lead in Extremely Close Race for California’s State Superintendent of Schools — Once Again the Most Expensive Schools Chief Race in Election History

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

EDlection2018: Oregon Voters Keep Sanctuary State Status

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

EDlection2018: New Mexico Voters Approve Bonds to Buy School Buses and Improve Schools and Libraries

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

EDlection2018: Gavin Newsom Easily Wins Governor’s Race in California, Which He Vows to Make ‘a State of Results and of Refuge’

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Veering Toward a Teachers Strike in Los Angeles as Union Rejects Sweetened Offer From School District

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Unleashing the Youth Vote: Meet Power California’s Luis Sánchez, Who Hopes to Bring 200,000 New Young Voters to the Polls

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Hundreds of Los Angeles High School Students to Cast Their First Ballot at This Week’s ‘Ready to Vote Party’

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

English Learners in California Remain at the Bottom on New State Test Scores — & It’s Even Worse for Students in L.A.

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Poll: Most Americans Support Teachers’ Right to Strike, but Fewer Than Half Believe Teachers Unions Improve the Quality of Education

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

ApplyLA: Inside the New Common Application System Launched to Help Los Angeles Parents Research and Enroll in the City’s Independent Charter Schools

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

LAUSD Is Now Diverting $2,300 Per Student to Cover Health Insurance Costs — 36 Percent More Than 5 Years Ago. Why the School Board Is Rushing to Avert a ‘Fiscal Cliff’

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Fewer Emails, More Power: L.A.’s New Schools Chief Lays Out Back-to-School Vision for District Leaders

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Closing the ‘Perception Gap’: With 3 in 5 Teachers Saying Students Are Not at Grade Level on First Day of School, New Digital Tool Offers Parents a ‘Readiness Check’

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

New Help for Native American Students: How to Rethink School Design and Culturally Relevant Classrooms for the Next Generation

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Education Critical Area for Latino Voters to Exert Influence as Immigration Furor Fuels Newfound Political Activism, Experts Say

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

California Lawsuit Claiming Literacy as Constitutional Right Can Move to Trial

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

New Report Shows Half of Teachers at Los Angeles’s Lowest-Performing Schools Aren’t Regularly Evaluated

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Only One Fourth-Grader at a California School Can Read at Grade Level. A New Lawsuit Claims the State Is Violating Students’ ‘Constitutional Right to Literacy’

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Los Angeles Schools Hammered by Two Different Reports That Say District Is Moving Too Slowly in Helping Neediest Students

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

How the Los Angeles School Board Teamed Up With Elon Musk to Field-Test a Child-Sized Submarine to Aid With the Thailand Cave Rescue

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

The Path to Excelencia: In Los Angeles, One School Leader’s Mission to Motivate English Language Learners to Succeed

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Schools in Los Angeles Will Now Report Two Graduation Rates to Reveal How Many Students Are Actually Eligible for State Universities

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

‘I Will Be the Education Governor’: Former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Recaps K-12 Track Record — and Flags Statewide Education Priorities — at Children’s Forum

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Austin Beutner Named Superintendent of L.A. Schools, as Board Turns Focus to Tackling Dire Academic and Fiscal Challenges

Laura Greanias & Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Two-Thirds of California Voters Say Education Is a ‘Very Important’ Issue in Governor’s Race, Survey Finds

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

50 Years After the Walkouts, Los Angeles Latino Students Are Still Fighting for Educational Equity

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

LA Students See in Villaraigosa’s California Students’ Bill of Rights an Opportunity to Improve Schools and Their Teachers’ Working Conditions

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Courage, Compassion, & Concern In California as Students Display Their Own Fears Along With Support for Shooting Victims

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Meet the Two Young DACA Recipients From Los Angeles Invited to Attend Tuesday’s State of the Union Speech

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Marshall Tuck Wins California School Administrators’ Endorsement for State Superintendent

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Los Angeles Dreamers March on D.C., Joining Hundreds of Undocumented Youth in Demanding Congress Pass Dream Act by Friday

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

3 Keys to Helping California’s Latino English Learners Achieve

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

New California Laws Ensure Schools Remain Safe Spaces for Students and Parents — Regardless of Immigration Status

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

New California Laws Aim to Give Community College Students Faster Route to Four-Year Degree

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

California ESSA Plan Not Giving Parents What They Need to Know, Experts Say

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

California Revises How State’s ‘School Dashboard’ Is Calculated, Moves Several Districts Out of Lowest-Performing Category

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

10 Tips for Immigrant Students, Families to Be Safe Part of LAUSD’s New ‘We Are One’ Guide

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Los Angeles Schools Launch Campaign and Resource Guides to Protect Immigrant Students

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

JUST IN: Father Arrested by ICE Agents Outside His Daughter’s School Avoids Deportation — for Now

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

LA Immigrants Rights Activists Concerned That Teens Were Swept Up During Recent ICE Raids

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

When Parent Turnout Swings Elections: The Secret Weapon Behind This Year’s LA School Board Surprise

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

Kelly Gonez, Science Teacher and Former Obama Adviser, Wins Close Race for L.A. School Board

Esmeralda Fabián Romero