Los Angeles District Faces Mounting Pressure over High Schools

Autor/in	Maxwell, Lesli A.
Titel	Los Angeles District Faces Mounting Pressure over High Schools
Quelle	In: Education Week, 26 (2007) 43, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	High Schools; Educational Improvement; Charter Schools; Academic Achievement; Governance; School Districts; Public Schools; Educational Change; Secondary School Curriculum; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Schulleistung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; School district; Schulbezirk; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Bildungsreform; Kalifornien
Abstract	After nearly eight months on the job, Superintendent David L. Brewer III has rolled out his strategy for improving student achievement in the 708,000-student Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Three new, reform-minded members also have been sworn in on the school board. But so far, the momentum for improving high schools in the nation's second-largest district has been coming from outsiders, centering largely on the fate of one troubled campus--Locke Senior High School in Watts. Los Angeles has been slower to embrace the district-led initiatives that have shown promise at the secondary school level in Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, observers say. When there has been dramatic change--such as the adoption two years ago of a requirement that all LAUSD high school students take a college-preparatory curriculum--the pressure has come from the outside. Lack of stability in governance is cited as the reason for LAUSD officials' past inability to initiate reforms. With his new plan, Brewer believes that LAUSD itself can now become the driving force for improvement in middle and high schools. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10