Sports
Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive back Jimmy Johnson, a three-time All-Pro and member of the All-Decade team of the 1970s, died on Wednesday at age 86.
May 9, 2024
California
Rafe Esquith may have been America’s most famous teacher — even, some said, its best — when the Los Angeles Unified School District fired him in 2015.
Sept. 13, 2017
Opinion
If there’s anything more famous about educator Rafe Esquith than his bestsellers on pedagogy and the way he instilled a love of Shakespeare in his students, it’s his dismissal from the classroom for allegedly inappropriate behavior with current and former students, followed by his termination.
Sept. 15, 2017
The Los Angeles Unified School District decided to come down hard on the wrong teacher.
June 26, 2015
To the editor: Having known and supported the work of nationally acclaimed teacher Rafe Esquith for more than 25 years, I find the Los Angeles Unified School District’s behavior in removing him from his classroom shocking but not surprising, given that it is allegedly based on having his students read Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn.”
June 21, 2015
Attorneys for nationally recognized teacher Rafe Esquith on Wednesday criticized the release of disciplinary records that provided the first extensive details of allegations against the educator, calling them “discredited and baseless.”
Dec. 9, 2015
When famed teacher Rafe Esquith was yanked from his fifth-grade classroom and an investigation was opened into possible sexual and financial misconduct, parents in the Los Angeles Unified School District — and the larger education world — gasped.
Dec. 13, 2015
Supporters of suspended teacher Rafe Esquith urged the Los Angeles Board of Education at its Tuesday meeting to reinstate the popular and nationally respected instructor.
June 23, 2015
The Los Angeles Board of Education voted this week to fire nationally recognized teacher Rafe Esquith, following a misconduct investigation that included allegations he made an improper joke to students and inappropriately touched minors, according to sources with knowledge of the decision.
Oct. 14, 2015
Brenda Gonzalez was supposed to perform in “A Winter’s Tale” in April, along with her fellow Hobart Shakespeareans.
Oct. 15, 2015