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Carver Middle students protest impending takeover by L.A.'s mayor
- 03-03-2010
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Blog by Mark Boster and Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times
About 100 students staged a peaceful sit-in at Carver Middle School on Tuesday to protest the school falling under the jurisdiction of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The protest came one week after the L.A. Board of Education voted to shift Carver, a persistently low-performing school, to the control of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, a nonprofit controlled by Villaraigosa. "We are trying to show the mayor that we are well-educated and we don't need any partnership schools to come here to educate us," said eighth-grader Arturo Macias, 14. Macias said he and fellow organizer Reyes Bravo — also a 14-year-old eighth-grader — didn't rely on Facebook or Twitter to get the word out: "I've been telling my fellow students about this rally for a couple of weeks now. (more...)
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