Education.Climate: Education in the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. area was dominated by the efforts of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. to reform 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. . In October, the school board selected a new superintendent, retired Navy admiral David L. Brewer, who took over last month and Brewer has since called on the business community to help him reform the troubled district. The school district also continued its building spree, opening new high schools in Arleta, Panorama City and the East Valley and launching plans to construct an $89 million school on the site of the former Granada Hills Hospital. Outside of the Dr. William Jennings in June was named interim dean of the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an . This summer, Woodbury University launched a fundraising effort for a new facility at its business school while the National Tooling and Machining Association's training facility closed its doors. Biggest in the News: Villaraigosa's efforts to reform the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) and the subsequent selection of Brewer as superintendent. |
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