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LAUSD STUDENTS TO PRESENT RESEARCH AT LOS ANGELES CITY HALL: ARE YOUTH VOICES BEING HEARD?

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Presentation is a culmination of Council of Youth Research summer seminar, a partnership of UCLA and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

                                                         MEDIA ADVISORY


August 4, 2008
Media Contact:
Arif Shaikh, UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access
(310) 267-4408 office / shaikh@gseis.ucla.edu

LAUSD STUDENTS TO PRESENT RESEARCH AT LOS ANGELES CITY HALL: ARE YOUTH VOICES BEING HEARD?
Presentation is a culmination of Council of Youth Research summer seminar, a partnership of UCLA and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

LOS ANGELES – The Council of Youth Research - Twenty-five students from high schools across the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) – will present findings from a summer research seminar with UCLA faculty members on Friday, Aug. 8. The Council is a partnership of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (UCLA IDEA) and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The students have examined opportunities for young people to exercise and develop their political voice inside and outside of schools. The students created and distributed a city-wide youth survey, conducted focus groups with students at high schools and youth centers, and interviewed senior officials in city government, the Los Angeles Police Department, and LAUSD (including senior deputy superintendent Raymond Cortines).

Council of Youth Research students, who have been employed by UCLA IDEA as apprentice researchers under the city’s jobs program for youth, are from the following LAUSD High Schools: Cleveland, Locke, Manual Arts, Opportunities Unlimited Charter, Roosevelt, and Wilson.

“We envision the Council as a model for how urban youth can become powerful in their communities, determine what’s wrong, and let others understand what they find,” said Ernest Morrell, a professor at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

This was the eighth summer that UCLA IDEA has held this research seminar with urban high school students, and the second year of the Council of Youth Research with the Mayor’s office. Morrell and fellow professor John Rogers taught the seminar.
WHO:     Twenty-five student researchers from Cleveland, Locke, Manual Arts, Opportunities Unlimited Charter, Roosevelt, and Wilson High Schools
Professor John Rogers, UCLA IDEA
Professor Ernest Morrell, UCLA IDEA
WHERE:    Tom Bradley Tower Room
        Los Angeles City Hall
WHEN:    Friday, August 8, 2008
        10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
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