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September 28, 2005
Education Week on KPCC
The week of October 17-21, KPCC will be taking a close look at the state of K-12 public education in southern California. As we planned what we wanted to focus on, we had to deal with the fact that this is such a huge subject, there's no way we can cover every facet of the topic. We will try to provide a broad sweep, however, as well as opportunities for you to weigh in.
Our team of reporters will be producing features on: activist parents; a principal shortage in the Inland Empire; the success story at Long Beach Polytechnic High School; the breakup of Santa Monica High School into smaller academies; a day in the life of L.A.'s Jefferson High School; and much more. Our talk shows will explore a variety of issues, including: the funding imbalance; the challenge of dealing with so many English learners; teacher training and retention; the role of parents; magnets; and charters.
Talk of the City will travel to the LA County High School for the Arts on Tuesday October 18 for a remote broadcast focusing on the importance of arts education, and AirTalk will travel to South Gate's new Southeast High School on Friday October 21 to culminate the discussion begun on our website with the interactive "Graduation Challenge." If you haven't seen it yet, check it out. Your ideas might be incorporated into the AirTalk program.
We're excited about Education Week; it's part of something new I've instituted here at KPCC. Last June we had our inaugural special week, when we focused on illegal immigration. In November, we will be mounting another week exploring the economic, social and other ties between southern California and China. More on that later...
Paul Glickman
News Director
Posted by Paul Glickman at 11:53 AM
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I hope you'll talk about LAUSD and real estate acquisition.
http://www.martinirepublic.com/item/lausd-accused-of-obstructing-real-estate-sale/#comments
Posted by: joseph on September 30, 2005 10:04 AM
I've heard a lot about getting parents to "buy into"
the educational process of their children. How about getting the
kids to buy into that same process by putting ownership in their hands? Years ago I was impressed by a documentary about a school program that made students take charge of their education: by letting them follow their interests.
This university model was built around a core of required subjects, but the kids were required to declare majors or tracks. The students weren't just drifting through school because they had to. They were expressing themselves, eager to be learning, and understood that they were working toward their future benefit.
Posted by: Fred on October 20, 2005 6:05 PM
I am hoping that Kitty Felde (Talk of the Town) has scheduled interviews with the LAUSD District Two candidates before the March 7th election. She did an excellent program (Feb. 27, 2003) on the last Disctrice 5 election. I am a resident of District Two and a sophomore at PCC. I'm not sure for whom to vote and an in-depth program about the five candidates will help me decide. Thank you.
Jennifer Solis
Posted by: Jennifer Solis on February 16, 2006 6:07 PM
