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
Start of something big in LA …
- 03-23-2011
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Blog by Charles Taylor Kerchner/Thoughts on Public Education
For the first time since the eclipse of LEARN, the massive school reform program of the 1990s, Los Angeles has hosted a broad scale education summit designed to bring the city together around support for public education. “There had been a lot of what I call ‘silo’ conversations. We needed to make sure the whole community was here,” said Elise Buik, president of United Way of Greater Los Angeles, which organized the program. Buik’s intent, and that of the United Way board, is to use the half-day event to kick off a longer more substantive discussion of the future of public education. A parent summit is planned for next month. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered a keynote that reiterated several themes found in his recent speeches. (more...)
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