LAUSD plan to have outsiders run 36 of its schools nears reality

M Richards wrote:

It seems to me that if up to 36 campuses need to be given up by LAUSD, then it proves that LAUSD is too large and unable to be a successful District.
Might this be just the first 36 of potentially many more campuses being thrown away by such a mismanaged District?
What about South Region High School #15? Will it still be a campus associated with the failing San Pedro High School, being considered for takeover?
Let's build a $108 Million Dollar campus and then just hand it off to others. Perhaps that may just be the best thing for students attending the new site.
The standards for graduating for LAUSD high schools these days don't seem all that high in the first place.
Maybe LAUSD will tell the operators running the 36 sites to do as they say and not as they do.
Something must be done to get more students properly educated so they can wait in unemployment lines for jobs that went overseas.
How many times does the refrain about the need for LAUSD to be broken up needs to be spoken before the Board of Education finally gets the message?

Heiny Hoyer wrote:

Nice to see that LAUSD gives away "publicly-financed" entities to privately-run companies. But as grandma once said, "Be careful what you ask for, it could be worse!"
God bless those people who have LAUSD to educate their children. Boy are they being short-changed!
Somebody needs to SLAY the "seven-headed" dragon!!

green splat wrote:

good luck to the private schools who assume san pedro and gardena high because they will need it to recoup their losses when it becomes obvious you cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear.

Missourian wrote:

Not sure I understand this. If there isn't a substantial downsizing planned for the current administrators (LAUSD), how is putting more people on the payroll going to solve our budget problems. Far as I know all these salaries are paid from the same place in the end, our pockets.

LAUSD Parent wrote:

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You are all over the map in your comments.
The admission by the board that they cannot handle the education/reforms necessary by allowing charters to take control should be enough for you. Efforts to break up the district and the city seem doomed to failure, so the idea that enthisiatic ousiders might be able to make the changes you seek should satisfy those, like yourself, who are heavily pessimistic about all the board does. Give thisplan a chance before moaning that it doesn't work, willya?

Fact or Fiction wrote:

Connie Llanos writes: Locally, Gardena and San Pedro high schools - two of the lowest-performing schools in the South Bay and Harbor Area - are targeted for takeover by outsiders.
What data did she look at to determine that San Pedro High School is the lowest performing school? In LAUSD, in Local District 8, San Pedro High School is THE highest performing school!
Get the facts straight!!

M Richards wrote:

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I don't remember writing about breaking up any city.
What we have seen for some time is the increasing failures to provide a good education to all of the students in a District many of us find to large to succeed.
Perhaps outsiders may come in and try to improve things, but that might just create another bureaucracy within LAUSD and their associations with the outsiders. That means more administration in a too large District and less money going to the classroom and the students.Right now it seems that Districts believes it is too large to fail when we are all seeing that with at least 36 sites, the District is failing badly. Should we wait and see if this new thing goes through while we watch more schools head towards failure or do we work hard, right now to break up the District into eight individual Districts that will promise more local control and local committment to all schools in all Districts?
Shouldn't we all be fed up with all the money our taxes have paid and the test results and graduation percentages we have seen lately?
This may be just another bureaucratic trick to keep them in jobs longer before another entity steps in and takes over LAUSD or the State of California steps in and THAT is something that should scare the heck out of all of us.
The Governator running L.A. Schools? Parish the thought.

pedro forever wrote:

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Maybe the Breeze needs to go to SPHS and take some notes for their next article...talk to people and get some factual information. Have you ever noticed that only the negativity of SPHS gets publicized in the Breeze? Maybe they'll be at the school tomorrow, when the EL students are having their reclassification ceremony....or maybe not, that is something positive.

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Jennifer wrote:

To Vic - about "reclassification ceremonies" - this is a celebration for English Learner (EL) students who have been reclassified as proficient in the English Language. They no longer need to attend additional and/or targeted classes for kids learning English. They are reclassified because of 1) their score on the California English Language Development Test, 2)a score basic or above in English language arts on the California
Standards Test, and 3) recommendation from the school to reclassify.
Reclassification is really important - the sooner a student reclassifies, the more likely they are to graduate, to take AP classes in high school, to have higher achievement, etc.