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Future Is Now Schools
Founder of Future Is Now Schools; founder and former CEO of Green Dot Public Schools, which operates eight charter schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District, as well as two outside the LAUSD
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Steve Barr
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FROM Steve Barr
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Making L.A.: Education “Sprawling” might be the word most used to describe Los Angeles. The city has a school system to match. There are more than 900 schools in the L.A. Unified School District and more than 600,000 students. Los Angeles also has more charter schools than any district in the country.
Which Way, L.A.?
Following the Money in the LA School Board Race New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is trying to influence public education here in Los Angeles. He's donated a million dollars to the Coalition for School Reform , led by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, which is trying to maintain a reformist majority on the elected school board.
Which Way, L.A.?
Los Angeles Schools Get Their Test Scores Test scores are in for LA Unified , Green Dot charter schools and Mayor Villaraigosa's Partnership for Los Angeles schools. They all show some improvement, but there's no change at all in the gaps between Asians and whites, who score fairly high, and blacks and Latinos, who are far behind.
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Parents, Teachers Prepare for Another Round of School Cuts The State Senate is about to hold hearings on restructuring government to make it more efficient. In the meantime, service providers and school administrators are “transforming” their operations, to use Governor Schwarzenegger's phrase . That means cutting so deeply that core missions are being compromised.
Which Way, L.A.?
Holes in the LAUSD Budget Threaten 5500 Teachers The LA Unified School District faces a budget shortfall of $718 million. Last night the elected board voted to send layoff notices to 5500 teachers. Can their jobs be saved? What's the possible impact if they can't?
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.
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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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