Shrinking urban high schools to help students and teachers
Cater Lee Swartzlander | 9-21-2009 | Comments |
The city's urban high schools are often large, impersonal. But a new approach to addressing size, and learning, is catching on in LAUSD's crowded schools.
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Governor Schwarzenegger congratulates Dorsey High School
Contributor | 9-17-2009 | Comments |
ARN's Lauren Whaley reports on Governor Schwarzenegger and Reverend Jesse Jackson's visit to Dorsey High School.
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New Charter School Opens In Watts
Contributor | 9-8-2009 | Comments |
Federal funding helped create Ánimo Watts. The new charter school is operated by Green Dot, a nonprofit organization that runs 19 schools in South L.A, including Locke High.
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Improved college prep curriculum could send more South LA students to college
Jacqueline Howard | 8-19-2009 | Comments |
More rigorous curriculum in South LA schools opens college doors for black and Latino students. The efforts took a while.
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OPINION: Remembering Reginald, what we owe him and the nation’s youth
Shannon Mitchell | 8-6-2009 | Comments |
Kids in South L.A. aren’t that different from kids in Las Vegas or New York City or New Orleans. Kids are basically looking for the same things. They want someone to care.
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Pushing the barriers, the children of immigrants in South LA’s schools
Emily Henry | 8-4-2009 | Comments |
Yesenia Zamarripas is about to enter her sophomore year at Crenshaw High School. Her Mexican parents speak very little English, and so it's been hard for Yesenia to keep up with her peers. Now, the pressure is mounting, and there's no time to fall behind.
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Hungry for action: An interview with Santee teacher, Jose Lara
Emily Henry | 6-2-2009 | Comments |
Tired, but impassioned: Jose Lara, a teacher at Santee Education Complex, is taking part in a hunger strike along with 8 other teachers to protest LAUSD teacher lay-offs and budget cuts.
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Crenshaw High School students salute arrested teacher
Emily Henry | 5-20-2009 | Comments |
Crenshaw High School Reports: Ms. Lopez, teacher and UTLA representative at Crenshaw High School, was arrested on Friday during teacher protests in downtown Los Angeles. Students in her class salute her determination to fight for their educational rights.
[...]NEWS ANALYSIS: Proposed teacher layoffs signal deeper problems for troubled LAUSD
Timothy Werth | 5-15-2009 | Comments |
A teacher walkout has been called off by a Los Angeles judge. Teachers have few bargaining chips left to prevent layoffs scheduled to begin in July.
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Teacher strike hangs in the balance
Emily Henry | 5-14-2009 | Comments |
Crenshaw High School Reports: Ninth-grader Rene Rosales interviews Ms. Jacqueline Lopez, Crenshaw High School's UTLA representative, about tomorrow's teacher protest. Despite an injunction from the LAUSD, Lopez says that teachers are still debating the prospect of a full-day strike on May 15th.