Teacher at Locke High School
Teacher at Locke High School
PROFILE
Bruce Smith
Guest
FROM Bruce Smith
Which Way, L.A.?
Locke High and Green Dot Receive Millions From Gates Foundation The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given Green Dot Charter schools 7.8 million dollars to divide Locke High , with it's three-thousand students, into ten separate institutions. Mayor Villaraigosa will have no direct involvement in the new schools. He’s not even mentioned in the press release from Green Dot and the Foundation . But he showed up for the announcement—his first public appearance in the week since he confirmed his love affair with Telemundo’s Mirthala Salinas . He tried to talk to about education, but reporters only wanted to know about his personal life.
Which Way, L.A.?
Should the LAUSD Have a Lock on Locke High School? The LA Times reports that a majority of the seventy-three tenured teachers at LA’s Locke High School have signed petitions asking that Green Dot Public Schools take over. If the petitions are verified, Green Dot could petition the elected school board for control of the school.
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