UCLA SE UNE AL LAUSD :: UCLA JOINS THE LAUSD

LAUSD Selects UCLA to Operate Pilot School - from the UCLA Office of Media Relations

7/31 - La Opinión and the Korea Daily report today on a partnership between the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, the Los Angeles Unified School District and several community-based organizations to enhance equity in K–12 education through the Bruin Community School, the first of the district's pilot schools at the former Ambassador Hotel site. KABC-Channel 7, KMEX-Channel 34, KFWB-980 AM and KABC-790 AM reported the story Wednesday. Chancellor Gene Block is quoted in La Opinión.

Manejará una escuela K-12 que forma parte de un plan piloto del Distrito Escolar |  To handle K-12 schools that form part of a pilot scheme School District

by Ruben Moreno | LA Opinion | Automatic Translation: Spanish » English

July 31, 2008 - The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has become the latest institution at the moment to join the list of partners interested in managing a group of stocks Unified School District Los Angeles (LAUSD).

Specifically, the university entity will be in charge of a school currently under construction, which will provide services from preschool to high school a total of 780 students.

The incorporation is established under the project called Pilot schools that LAUSD is conducting some campuses in the jurisdiction 4 School District, and which seeks to give greater local control and autonomy to these campuses as needed to consider parents and teachers .

"This is a phenomenon that is creating a new model of education in Los Angeles, and although it is only the beginning and this is one school, can have a major impact on the community," said Gene Block, chancellor of UCLA .

Block hopes that this new concept of learning to achieve that more students can graduate from Los Angeles with the aim to enroll in a four-year career. For now, UCLA is committed to providing teachers, programs and sports activities, among other resources, for the benefit of stock.

UCLA has opted to develop a plan of instruction based on the ideals of social justice promoted by Robert F. Kennedy.

The whole complex will house about 4000 students and each school will also have a centre for single parents.

Building the school is conducted on the site where the hotel was located ambassador, Wilshire Avenue. Two other comprehensive K-12 schools, along with two more secondary form this 23-acre educational complex to be launched in the early grades in September 2009 and will be at full capacity a year later.

For the other two schools, the LAUSD is still at the stage of finding new allies to sign alliances with which to delegate control over these stocks.

"This school will be like a university campus, with three schools that operate independently in one place, like someone who studied at UCLA and can go to school education or medicine," said Edmundo Rodriguez, director of the office of Pilot Schools .

Under the alliance, the campuses to recruit teachers wishing, after an agreement with the Union of Teachers Los Angeles, as well as develop their own curriculum and promote changes to improve the academic performance of children.

"We hope that this way we can be much more involved. This project is fantastic, I hope to give us results, "said Sylvia Sosa, mother of two high school students that was enthusiastic about the plan.