Education: Private Takeover of L.A.'s infamous Locke High

A friend emailed me a link to an article in the IBDeditorials.com, entitled "The Toughest Test?" It is about how the Alain Leroy Locke High School in the Watts area of Los Angeles has now been taken over by Green Dot Public Schools (a nonprofit group that operates a dozen smaller charter schools in L.A). The have started their program this summer and the atmosphere is "orderly and few of the students are challenging the new rules."

L.A. does give some public money to charter schools and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation contributed some funds. "Green Dot, run by Rock-the-Vote founder Steve Barr, said that the Gateses and other reform-focused philanthropists would jump at the chance to help any public school like Locke that is trying something that works. So money is no excuse." (This may be one of those successes in schools that Olympia should take a look at.)

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