January 16, 2013, 12:59 PM
LOS ANGELES – The first time Amabilia Villeda tried to fix her children’s school, she joined several dozen fellow parents and teachers in a protest outside 24th Street Elementary. That was three years ago. Villeda and the rest of the loosely organized group believed the struggling...
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October 17, 2012, 12:05 AM
About nine months ago, at a small park playground a few hundred feet from their children’s struggling school, a group of parents chanted, cheered and delivered passionate speeches about their growing frustration with Desert Trails Elementary. That Jan. 12 park rally – which drew a...
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October 4, 2012, 12:05 AM
Doreen Diaz left the red carpet movie premiere of “Won’t Back Down” in New York City last week feeling encouraged. But then the 47-year-old mom, a key figure in the education movement that “inspired” the feature film, headed back to the tiny desert city of...
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July 19, 2011, 12:05 AM
Bright and articulate, Enrique Duarte IV, 11, rode the bus with his parents from Los Angeles to Sacramento with one cause in mind: to tell the state Board of Education that someday, he wants to return to a public school classroom. Enrique told the board that he left his elementary school...
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January 13, 2011, 12:05 AM
Former state Sen. Gloria Romero, the author of a controversial law that allows parents to force major changes in their children's school, said she won't support amending the law to make the process more open, despite a roiling controversy over use of the law in Compton. "If...
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