History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
L.A. schools: When your enemy reaches out, reach back
- 09-07-2011
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Opinion by Caprice Young/Los Angeles Times
Caprice Young is the former president of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education and former head of the California Charter Schools Assn
My in-box has been swamped since the news broke of my working with A.J. Duffy, former head of United Teachers Los Angeles, to start Apple Academy Charter Public Schools. Many of the emails ask if I am in my right mind, considering that Duffy and UTLA did everything in their power to unseat me as L.A. school board president in 2003. What initially got Duffy and me to work together was the scandal surrounding the Crescendo charter schools, in which teachers said they were ordered by administrators to cheat on standardized tests. When the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Crescendo board weighed closing the schools (which they ultimately did), Duffy's UTLA took the extraordinary step of representing charter school teachers and calling for the Crescendo campuses to remain open. (more...)
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