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    Should LAUSD grade its own schools?

    If you’re a parent in LA, would it be helpful to you if you had a rating, like an Amazon or Yelp score, for a particular LA Unified school? That’s something that the nation’s 2nd largest school district is contemplating: a rating scale of 1 to 5.

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    Person smiling broadly wearing glasses and plaid shirt against ivy-covered wall background.By Steve Chiotakis • Aug 14, 2019 • 1 min read

    If you’re a parent in LA, would it be helpful to you if you had a rating, like an Amazon or Yelp score, for a particular LA Unified school? That’s something that the nation’s 2nd largest school district is contemplating: a rating scale of 1 to 5. The idea is to give parents and educators insight into how their schools stack up, with one glaring issue: the system would rate its own schools and charters.

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    Living in your car under LA’s reinforced restrictions
    1. 0:00Mobile home dwellers on LA’s strict parking rules
    2. 8:53Imagining LA full of backyard baby homes
    3. 17:16Should LAUSD grade its own schools?You’re reading this
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