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public school
How “all kids” is the current LAUSD?
Jewish Journal
October 26, 2015
In decrying the recently leaked memo outlining a plan to create more high-quality public charter schools in our city, LAUSD School Board President Steve Zimmer said: “This is not an all-kids plan or an all-kids strategy…[i]t’s very explicitly a some-kids strategy, a strategy that some kids will have a better education at a publicly-funded school…[t]he conversation should be better public education options and quality public schools for all kids, not some kids.”
Paris calls public school map showing Israel as ‘Palestine’ a ‘production error’
Jewish Journal
September 29, 2015
Responding to parents who complained about the distribution at public schools of a map which labeled Israel as “Palestine,” the City of Paris said it was the result of “a simple production error.”
Why some public school parents are switching to Jewish day schools
Jewish Journal
August 28, 2015
When Ali Martell’s eldest daughter reached school age, Martell and her husband both assumed she’d go to a Jewish day school, as they had.
A principal’s speech to high school students
Dennis Prager
July 2, 2013
Three years ago, I wrote a version of this column. Because it went viral — often listing me as the high school principal who actually gave this speech! — I am revising it and publishing it here. I believe that if every school principal gave this speech, America would be a better place.
Will recession fuel a return to public schools?
Bill Boyarsky
December 24, 2008
Throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District, the recession is prompting middle-class parents to take a look at public middle and high schools they have long disdained.
City Voice: Keep education in the spotlight
Bill Boyarsky
February 29, 2008
I write about education a lot because it\’s important for the Jewish community to have a strong public school system. Education is part of the Jewish culture. Many Jews can\’t afford private schools, and their kids deserve an education good enough to send them to college. Moreover, strong public schools are good for everybody, Jews and non-Jews.
Can Pasadena become a ‘city of justice?’
Peter Dreier
October 19, 2007
I sometimes wonder what the Prophet Isaiah would think about Pasadena.
Hebrew at Florida charter school approved, challenges remain
Larry Luxner
September 21, 2007
It\’s 7:55 a.m., and parents are dropping off their kids in front of the Ben Gamla Charter School along busy Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Fla. Amid a noisy melange of languages — English, Spanish, Hebrew, French and Russian — the uniformed children say their goodbyes and rush off to class at one of the nation\’s first Jewish-oriented charter schools.
Mere Humans
Rob Eshman
May 11, 2007
To raise a child to young adulthood who knows herself, who has a sense of what she loves, an ability to relate to others and a command of the things she needs to learn — that is a gift far beyond the right school and the best scores.\n
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