In the debate about charter school discipline, the voices of people who work in charter schools deserve more attention. Many charter leaders have improved
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How My Faith Led Me to Help Close the Achievement Gap in Our Public Schools
As my first group of students walked into my classroom in Compton, California, one student stood out: Brandi. She had a bright smile and beautiful round ey
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America doesn’t have a good relationship with color-coded systems as previous experiments have shown, but apparently that isn’t stopping the California Sta
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When parents at Broadway Elementary School’s Mandarin immersion program in Venice, California, wanted the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to re
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Ryan Smith is the executive director of Education Trust-West, in Oakland, California, and part of a crop of young education reform leaders vocally pushing
Read MoreCalifornia Families Need Clear School Quality Reports, Not a Rubik’s Cube
California is currently revamping its school quality reports, moving away from abstract, numerical values of school quality to a set of more comprehensive
Read MoreCoffee Break: Heart of Los Angeles’ Tony Brown on Why He Drinks Decaf and Helping Kids Find Their Passion
Tony Brown is the executive director of Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), a nonprofit organization in the Rampart district that provides after-school academic a
Read MoreScandals Don’t Just Happen in Politics, They Also Take Place In Our Classrooms
New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles: These cities and countless others across the United States have dealt with scandals invo
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Is there a meaningful role for philanthropy in our push to improve our public schools? While we may think the answer is a simple one, the Los Angeles Times
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