History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Is the Mayor listening?
- 06-13-2011
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Guest blog by Lisa Alva/InterACT
How much rage the whole question of teacher quality and “failing schools” inspires! Pile on corporate efforts to secure a competent workforce and political issues and you have the current educational climate in Los Angeles, where roughly half of our low-income minority population does not graduate in four years with a diploma. Add mayoral control, which is getting increasingly bad press, to bring the whole thing to a frothy boil. For teachers in the Mayor’s Partnership for Los Angeles Schools (PLAS) this is a time of extreme change and challenge. Luckily for us, once in a while, the mayor gives us his ear. PLAS recently hosted a “listening session” between the mayor and fourteen teachers. The session, planned by teachers with support from PLAS, was intended to align priorities between the mayor and teachers in “his” schools. Encouragingly, this was the second such session in two months. Because the teachers expected a meeting with a problem-solving focus, the conversation turned to how the teachers defined good leadership. (more...)
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