Opinion: What LAUSD can learn from the New York City Community Schools Initiative (via latimesopinion)
When the Los Angeles Unified School District and its unionized teachers settled a weeklong strike a year ago, the deal included familiar items such as pay raises, smaller classes and more nurses and counselors.
, the largest such program in the country with more than 250 schools involved. Our project was sponsored by the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity in New York. We just finished evaluating how dozens of schools changed over their first three years in the program — and learned that it is possible to successfully transform traditional schools into community schools on a large scale.
After three years, this kind of intensive intervention showed results. Across all the schools we studied, we saw a positive, albeit small, impact on math achievement. Much bigger leaps were made, however, in the foundational indicators that mark the difference between a school that is functioning and one that is failing.
There were fewer disciplinary incidents among elementary and middle school students but not among high schoolers.
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