EDITORIAL UNDER PRESSURE.WATCH closely, because the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. is giving us an important civics civics, branch of learning that treats of the relationship between citizens and their society and state, originally called civil government. With the large immigration into the United States in the latter half of the 19th cent. lessons. Over the past three months, the district has unrolled three long-overdue programs to address its dropout crisis A faction in the ongoing debate about the efficacy of U.S. public education claims that schools underreport the number of students who drop out before finishing high school. . The first offers extra help to at-risk students The term at-risk students is used to describe students who are "at risk" of failing academically, for one or more of any several reasons. The term can be used to describe a wide variety of students, including,
Because now the district is under intense public pressure, with L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa poised to take charge. The board senses the need to get results before its lock on power comes to an end. And therein lies the lesson for us all: Want to get bureaucracies to move, to become responsive to the need of the people? It takes public pressure, and it takes leadership -- which Villaraigosa has ably provided. |
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