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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in L.A. Schools
With hugs all around, Mayor Villaraigosa , LA’s elected School Board and Superintendent Brewer announced today that the Mayor will try to improve student performance in two high schools and their feeder schools. The specific schools have not been named and the Teachers’ Union is worried about what it calls “hostile takeovers”. Meantime,…
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readWith hugs all around, Mayor Villaraigosa, LA’s elected School Board and Superintendent Brewer announced today that the Mayor will try to improve student performance in two high schools and their feeder schools. The specific schools have not been named and the Teachers’ Union is worried about what it calls “hostile takeovers”. Meantime, here’s some insight into why children in troubled neighborhoods don’t do well in school. An astonishing number have PTSD—post traumatic stress disorder—at nearly twice the rate of the troops coming back from Iraq. LA Unified is one of the few urban districts that acknowledge the problem.
A special thank you to Jill Tucker of the San Francisco Chronicle for today's topic.
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Karen Radziner
Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Dan Konecky
Producer, To the Point
Victor Carrion
Associate Professor and Director of the Early Life Stress Research Program at Stanford University
Marleen Wong
Director of LAUSD’s Crisis Counseling and Intervention Services
Pia Escudero
Los Angeles Unified School District
The full episode
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