Los Angeles Schools' Panel Looking at Race Issues

Leiloni de Gruy:

Acknowledging that the achievement gap between African-American students and those of other races has persisted far too long, the Los Angeles Unified School District has established an African-American Education Working Committee designed to help create a plan to replicate "best practices" district-wide.

The 25-member committee has met twice since it was formed in mid-January, and has yet to determine specifics on what practices will be implemented and how.

But, committee member and Community Coalition lead organizer for youth programs Tonna Onyendu said "The beginning has been about introducing everyone to what the task force is about, and what the purpose is and why we are convening. Then we also made sure we were all on the same page in terms of what the goals of the task force are, which is to improve the educational outcome of African-American students within LAUSD."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 4, 2011 1:06 AM
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