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Aug. 6: Youth Council presents research findings at City Hall
WHO: Council of Youth Research students, UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access
WHAT: Student presentations of monthlong research project examining the equitable distribution of educational resources. Data includes about 1,000 surveys of students, and interviews with educators, administrators, community leaders and key leaders throughout the state, including Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell and Education Undersecretary Kathryn Radtkey-Gaither.
WHEN: Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. Student presentations begin at 10 a.m. with reception to follow.
WHERE: Tom Bradley Tower at Los Angeles City Hall, 200 N. Spring St.
WHY: The Council of Youth Research provides Los Angeles high school students with an avenue and tools to research and shed light on school and community issues that directly affect them. Council participation encourages students to become civically engaged researchers and empowers them to insert their voices into the public debate on education.
RSVP: 310-825-7407 for free parking.
MORE: Read press release or download PDF version.
MEDIA CONTACT: Claudia Bustamante, 310-267-4408, bustamante@gseis.ucla.edu
July 29: IDEA comments on gubernatorial candidate's ed plan
in LA Times
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown released an eight-page education plan on his campaign website Wednesday that outlined his reforms, including overhauling state testing, fixing the financing system, increasing rate of high school graduates and more.
IDEA Director John Rogers commented on the plan in an article appearing in the Los Angeles Times Thursday.
"It is surprising there wouldn't be some discussion of the need for more funding so California can enter the bottom third rather than being among the very lowest," Rogers said. "If you're going to maintain high goals, clearly you need to have a decent level of investment."
July 28-29: Youth Council to meet key leaders in Sacramento
A group of Los Angeles-area high school students began traveling to Sacramento today to meet with state legislators, politicians and educators as part of an ongoing research project.
Thirty-three students from IDEA's Council of Youth Research will interview state Superintendent Jack O'Connell, Kathryn Radtkey-Gaither, state education undersecretary, and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. They will also meet with legislators and their staff. The students will return to Los Angeles Thursday afternoon.
Data from the trip will be added to the student research project on the state of education in California. The results of their findings will be presented Aug. 6 at Los Angeles City Hall, 200 N. Spring St.
The Council of Youth Research has been meeting since early July, taking courses at UCLA in graduate-level research methodologies and conducting surveys and interviews of their peers, teachers, administrators and community leaders. The council's summer team is composed of recent graduates and current students from Crenshaw, Locke, Manual Arts, Roosevelt and Wilson high schools.
For more information on council's trip, contact Claudia Bustamante at bustamante@gseis.ucla.edu or 310-267-4408.
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Several leading civil rights groups, including the NAACP, released a document Monday criticizing parts of the Obama administration's educational reforms as harmful to low-income and minority students. They specifically cite the competitive nature of Race to the Top, proposals that don't consider challenges in low-income communities and ineffective turnaround policies.
Calling CA high schoolers to lend voice
Youth research council created online survey to gauge student opinion statewide.
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