Adolfo Guzman-Lopez Sr. Education Reporter
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Adolfo Guzman-Lopez is KPCC's lead education reporter. He's been a reporter at the station since 2000.
After college, in the mid-1990s, Guzman-Lopez began reporting freelance arts and culture stories, mostly about the red-hot rock en español scene, to the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, and the Tijuana newspaper La Tarde. He got his first public radio job at KPBS-FM in San Diego in 1996 as a news talk show producer. He freelanced radio features to Latino USA, Marketplace and other national shows. At KPBS he hosted and produced a daily, Gen-X arts and culture show called "The Lounge" which featured in-studio performances by Howard Jones and Sean Lennon with the band Cibo Matto.
Guzman-Lopez's reporting at KPCC has included the South Gate city hall corruption scandal; the L.A. mayoral campaigns of James Hahn and Antonio Villaraigosa; the SB1070 protests in Phoenix, the 2007 May Day melee; and coverage of L.A. Unified Superintendents Roy Romer, David Brewer, Ramon Cortines, and John Deasy.
Guzman-Lopez was born in Mexico City and grew up in Tijuana and San Diego.He now lives in Long Beach with his wife and two kids and is always open to hear traffic tips for the 110, 710, or the 5 freeways to downtown L.A.
Stories by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
ACLU sues California on behalf of 20,000 students, alleges schools fail English learners
A suit by the ACLU alleges that tens of thousands of English learner students languish in public school classrooms without the help schools are mandated to provide.
State penalty possible for Burbank school breach of test security
Incident involved a teacher and third grade students. The breach could invalidate API scores for the school and Burbank Unified.
Six Orange County parents arrested for kids’ chronic truancy
The truancy crackdown is part of a multi-agency gang effort that warns parents first to get their kids back in school - with arrests if there's no change.
MOCA says it has $75 million in promised donations
L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art has a $100 million goal for its endowment. New gifts are from former and current trustees.
Iconic LA teacher who led 1968 walkouts dies
Sal Castro, the Lincoln High School social studies teacher who inspired students to stage mass walkouts from classes to demand better school in 1968, died in his Silver Lake home Monday.
LAUSD teachers vote no confidence against Supt. John Deasy
LA Unified teachers overwhelmingly expressed disappointment with the district's leader. Union president says "the educational program is not on the right track."
California high school graduation rate up to 78 percent
California education officials announced Tuesday that despite years of budget cuts to schools, the state’s high school graduation rate inched up again last year.
UCLA report: Public school suspension policies do more harm than good
While suspension rates for Asian and white students remained largely unchanged from 1973-2010, the rates for African-American and Latino students doubled.
LA charter school founders convicted of embezzlement
Founders of a San Fernando Valley charter school have been convicted of multiple counts of embezzling public funds and filing filing false tax returns
University conference hopes to rally Southland education reformers
A TEDx conference at Loyola Marymount University on Saturday seeks to turn the traditional education conference on its head.
PCC newspaper advisor speaks about tensions at college
Students and faculty at Pasadena City College accuse the administration of suspending college newspaper advisor for covering growing tensions over class cancelations.
Southland school district to buy an iPad for every student
Coachella Valley Unified got the green light Tuesday to spend bond money to put an iPad in every student’s hand and a MacBook in every teacher's lap.
Administration, students and faculty clash at Pasadena City College
There's been tensions since trustees canceled the winter term, and now the faculty advisor to the campus newspaper has been placed on leave.
Big teachers unions want to be defendants in California teacher tenure lawsuit
California’s two largest public school teachers unions file to become defendants on a pending lawsuit that would radically change the teaching.
Report: cheating on standardized tests in majority of states
National watchdog group says cheating on standardized tests happens in 37 states across the country, with notable cases in Southern California.
