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Can a New Charter School Plan Really Improve LA Public Schools?
A new pro-charter schools organization is making waves with an ambitious plan to improve LA’s public schools. But not everyone is on board.
By Madeleine Brand • • 50m ListenA new pro-charter schools organization is making waves with an ambitious plan to improve LA’s public schools. But not everyone is on board.
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5 storiesA New Charter School Plan from Great Public Schools Now
Last September, a confidential draft memo from an organization called Great Public Schools Now was published by the LA Times. The memo said that several pro-charter schools groups wanted to build more than 200 charters and enroll half of LA’s public school students in them.
Read the story9 minPresident of United Teachers Los Angeles Responds to a New Charter Proposal
The head of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s teachers union responds to Myrna Castrejon of Great Public Schools Now.
Read the story5 minBallet in LA
Madeleine peels back the curtain on dance in Los Angeles, if you will, with the head of the local American Contemporary Ballet . It’s a five year old ballet company based in downtown. One of the things the company does is dissect ballet for the audience as it’s happening, and it’s premiering a new show doing just that this week.
Read the story10 minWhen Late Night Hosts Respond to News
The attack in Orlando last weekend allowed late night TV hosts a chance to shape the conversation in a way rarely seen before. In the past, those solemn moments after a tragedy were infused with sympathy for the victims, a call for healing, mourning.
Read the story9 minThe Grateful Dead Aren't Dead
The Grateful Dead rose out of the counterculture of Haight-Ashbury in 1965. The band never went mainstream, but it developed a huge and devoted following of that turned up by the tens of thousands with their tie dye and bongs whenever the band came to town. Jerry Garcia, the band’s talisman and leader, died in 1995.
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