William S. Hart Union High School District
School board member for the William S. Hart Union High School District in Santa Clarita; former teacher and principal at LAUSD
PROFILE
Gloria Mercado-Fortine
Guest
FROM Gloria Mercado-Fortine
Which Way, L.A.?
Are California Public Schools Giving Up On Their Students? Some 20,000 California “students cannot afford to wait any longer.” That’s according to the US Justice Department, which has backed the ACLU in a lawsuit against the state’s elected Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torklakson, and the Department of Education. The 20,000 kids are English learners who, allegedly, are not getting any of the services required by federal law or the State Constitution.
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