Howard Blume covers education for the Los Angeles Times. He’s won the top investigative reporting prize from the L.A. Press Club and print Journalist of the Year from the L.A. Society of Professional Journalists chapter. He recently retired “Deadline L.A.,” a past honoree for best public-affairs radio program, which he produced and co-hosted on KPFK-FM (90.7) for 15 years. He teaches tap dancing and has two superior daughters.
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The search is on for a temporary home for fire-damaged Palisades Charter High School as school leaders grapple with ramping up an interim online program.
Fire largely destroyed Palisades Elementary and Marquez Elementary. Each school has been relocated in its entirety to a different LAUSD campus.
LAUSD schools will open other than in Palisades and mountain areas. Schools in Pasadena Unified, La Cañada Unified and in Malibu will remain closed on Monday.
For LAUSD on Friday, conditions looked promising but uncertain for reopening schools; Pasadena has too much damage and community trauma, officials said.
The state’s largest school district will keep campuses closed Friday as students and employees grapple with evacuations, power outages and poor air quality.
Fire devastated at least two Pacific Palisades schools and five Pasadena Unified campuses while hundreds of campuses are closed. UCLA will go online for two days.
The Eaton fire is burning near Altadena and Pasadena. Here is information on evacuations, shelters for people and animals, and road and school closures.
The Palisades fire reached the grounds of Palisades Charter High School. The fire led to school evacuations elsewhere.