Posted on 05/10/2007 5:52:15 PM PDT by doug from upland
Locke High seeks to leave L.A. Unified
Its teachers have signed petitions urging control be given to Green Dot charter schools. The loss would be a blow to the district and union.
By Joel Rubin, Times Staff Writer
May 10, 2007
Challenging the balance of power in the city's public school system, a leading charter school organization is poised to wrest control of a failing high school from the elected Los Angeles Board of Education.
Green Dot Public Schools, which has clashed frequently with the board in its aggressive push to expand, has quietly overseen the collection of signatures of support from a majority of the tenured teachers at Locke High School — clearing the major legal hurdle toward converting the campus into a series of charter schools.
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Well....that’s one way to get out from under the union.....Hmmmmm
WOW. The times they are a’changin’ ...
The group’s charter petition — a copy of which was provided to The Times and which must be voted on by the seven-member school board — calls for Green Dot to receive its funding directly from the state, instead of allowing it to first pass through district coffers. Teachers who wish to remain at the deeply troubled school would have to re-apply for their jobs to principals hired by Green Dot. The extensive labor agreement negotiated by the district’s teachers union would also be thrown out, as Locke teachers would work under the shorter, simpler pact signed by Green Dot’s union.
All they r worried about is their $$$ being taken out of their control. They do not care about the kids as much as the dough.....
LA Unified is a National disgrace.
As you know, along with the union, the biggest problem is that Los Angeles has been invaded by a foreign country whose children fill the schools.
Yep, and the only schools in the LAUSD which are NOT completely invaded are the ones in the "elite" districts.
Some schools in the "non-elite" districts are 75% hispanic and non-English speaking. An example is schools in the town of Wilmington (L.A. harbor area).
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING?!?! I have 20-30% of my students in my classes who are black and don’t speak english. We have neglected the inner city for far to long because of narrowminded and miopic views on immigration or illegal immigration. Are you telling me that the Latinos in this country - specifically in southern california, are making our homegrown students dumber? Or are the Latino students working 2x as hard to translate questions on a test and then answer them at a rate where their API is 50 points higher than the black students at Locke? Just curious how you would address that statistic?
The Revolution will not be televised placemarker.
The solution to the language problem is simple. If a student does not have an acceptable working knowledge of English, that student is not placed in the usual classroom. Rather, that student is placed in an English immersion program where he/she has 100% of their time devoted to learning to read, write and speak English.
Now, this may, and likely will, cause that student to be in school for an extra year. However, when the student does enter the standard classroom, he/she will not suffer because of lack of English, and the rest of the class will not be held back because of dumbing down of the courses.
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