REPORT SAYS SCHOOL DISTRICT HAMPERING LEARN REFORMS.Byline: Terri Hardy Hardy may refer to:
A new analysis of the LEARN program to be released today shows while schools are enthusiastic about becoming more autonomous to increase student achievement, their progress is being hampered at the district level. Mike Roos, president of 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. Educational Alliance for Restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). Now, said implementing recommendations in the report need to become the top priority in Los Angeles schools The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. . ``Only then will you bring about a change in the culture, attitude and action of the central office,'' Roos said. ``Failing to do so frustrates the progress of the reform movement . . . and the inevitability of the slow death of enthusiasm.'' However, Brad Sales, a spokesman for 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. , said great efforts were under way to implement reforms already. ``We've gone a long way towards addressing many of the criticisms,'' Sales said. The report, to be presented to a Los Angeles Unified School District committee today, examined planning and implementation progress at 18 schools and the district's central office. An outside consultant, the Evaluation and Training Institute, evaluated and made recommendations in several areas, including leadership, accountability, governance Governance makes decisions that define expectations, grant power, or verify performance. It consists either of a separate process or of a specific part of management or leadership processes. Sometimes people set up a government to administer these processes and systems. , student learning and assessment. An executive summary of the report obtained by the Daily News showed that LEARN schools had made ``significant strides'' toward local governance. |
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