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Central High School #13 is located near Glendale Kia on San Fernando Road. EGP photo by Gloria Angelina Castillo.|La construcción para la Preparatoria Central #13 ya casi termina. El campus, que aun no ha sido bautizado con un nombre, esta ubicado cerca de Glendale Kia sobre la Calle San Fernando Road cerca de la Calle Division. Foto de EGP por Gloria Angelina Castillo.
| Jul 8, 2010 -- Central High School #13 is scheduled to open fall 2011 in the Glassell Park area of Northeast Los Angeles. It is one of several schools selected to participate in the second round of Los Angeles Unified School District’s Public School Choice initiative that allows interested groups to apply to manage some of LAUSD’s most academically underperforming schools, and schools in areas with high drop out rates. The new high school is expected to relieve overcrowding at Eagle Rock (Eagle Rock), Marshall (Los Feliz) and Franklin High (Highland Park) Schools. The vast majority of schools eligible for new management during round one of the Public School Choice reform effort, concluded earlier this year, were awarded by LAUSD school board members to teacher and administrator group applicants from within the district. Charter school applicants were for the most part left out, despite receiving the recommendation of LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines and a panel of evaluators. Central High received the most “Letters of Intent” in the new school category during this preliminary stage of the Public School Choice process. The school received 16 in all by the June 30 deadline: South Region HS #2 and Valley Region HS #5 each received 11 of the letters intended to identify groups considering submitting an application proposal. In all, 129 letters of intent for the nine new campuses and 59 letters of intent for the eight “focus schools” district-wide were submitted for consideration. The applicants are expected to engage parents and community members to create a proposal that is due at the end of the year. “I want it understood that this is a process of inclusion and I am glad our education partners have stepped up to the plate to help raise student achievement at the identified schools,” Cortines said in a statement released on July 1. “I welcome the innovative ideas and tested strategies these teams will present in their final applications, which are due in December.” Letters of Intent for Central High #13 were received from the following teacher and UTLA focus groups and charter operators: Alliance College-Ready Public Schools; Paul Payne (John Marshall HS); Tara Alton (John Marshall HS); Partnerships to Uplift Communities LA; Camino Nuevo Charter Academy; Leticia Rojas (Roosevelt HS); Environmental Charter Schools; Meredith Reyley (Franklin HS); Teri Klass (John Marshall HS); Scott Spector (Crenshaw HS), LEMA 2.0 (Beth Kennedy or Scott Petri), Kristin Szilagyi (John Marshall HS); Local District 4 (Dr. Rosa Maria Hernandez); United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)-5; Local District 4/LA Small Schools Center-5, and the Youth Policy Institute. For more information, visit LAUSD’s web page: http://publicschoolchoice.lausd.net. | El nuevo campus ha recibido más cartas de interés bajo la iniciativa Public School Choice. Jul 8, 2010 -- La Preparatoria Central #13, un campus ubicado en Glassell Park que abrirá en 2011, es una escuela nueva que recibió más cartas de intención para solicitar manejarla bajo la segunda ronda de la iniciativa del distrito de la Elección de Escuela Pública, que tiene el propósito de mejorar el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes y reducir las tasas de estudiantes que abandonan sus estudios en las escuelas elegidas. La reforma interna del Distrito Unificado Escolar de Los Ángeles (LAUSD) ya procesó 30 escuelas el año pasado, la mayoría de las escuelas fueron premiadas a solicitantes formados por maestros y administradores del distrito. Aunque recibieron recomendación del superintendente, los solicitantes de las escuelas charter no recibieron mucho apoyo por la mesa directiva escolar. La Preparatoria Central #13 recibió 16 cartas de interés el pasado 30 de Junio, y fue seguida de cerca por las nuevas preparatorias Sur Región #2 y Región del Valle #5, que recibieron 11 cartas cada una. La Preparatoria Central #13 ayudará a disminuir la población de las Preparatorias Eagle Rock, Marshall y Franklin. En total, 129 cartas de interés para nueve nuevas escuelas y 59 cartas de interés para ocho “escuelas de enfoque” por todo el distrito fueron sometidas para consideración. Los solicitantes ahora deben involucrar a los padres y la comunidad para formar un plan detallado para crear éxito en las escuelas. Las propuestas deben ser entregadas para fines del año. “Quiero que entiendan que este es un proceso de inclusión y estoy feliz que nuestros aliados educativos han tomado la iniciativa para ayudar a aumentar el rendimiento académico de las escuelas identificadas,” Cortines dijo en una declaración el 1 de julio. “Les doy la bienvenida a las ideas innovadoras y las estrategias ya puesto en prueba por los equipos que presentaran sus aplicaciones finales, que deben ser sometidas en diciembre.” Las cartas de interés para la Preparatoria Central #13 fueron entregadas por los siguientes: Alliance College-Ready Public Schools; Paul Payne (John Marshall HS); Tara Alton (John Marshall HS); Partnerships to Uplift Communities LA; Camino Nuevo Charter Academy; Leticia Rojas (Roosevelt HS); Environmental Charter Schools; Meredith Reyley (Franklin HS); Teri Klass (John Marshall HS); Scott Spector (Crenshaw HS), LEMA 2.0 (Beth Kennedy or Scott Petri), Kristin Szilagyi (John Marshall HS); Local District 4 (Dr. Rosa Maria Hernandez); United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)-5; Local District 4/LA Small Schools Center-5, y Youth Policy Institute. Para más información, visite http://publicschoolchoice.lausd.net. |
●●smf's 2¢: This proposed outsourcing of HS#13 is being done with absolutely no outreach-to or engagement-of the community in-and-around the school -- a community that fought for the school, engaged in its design and was instrumental in indentifying and securing the school site. …which was obtained without relocating any residences or businesses.
And, the unconventional wisdom has it that the deal is done and that The Alliance for College Ready Schools will get at least one of the academies to permanently house the high school it is incubating/hothousing on the Van de Kamps Campus of LACC.
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