Former school board President Canter heads Green Dot charters
Former Los Angeles school board President Marlene Canter will head the governing board for Green Dot Public Schools, one of the nation’s largest charter school groups, the organization announced Thursday.
The locally based nonprofit operates schools mostly in the low-income, heavily minority areas of south and southwest Los Angeles. Its best-known effort is the takeover of Locke High School, near Watts, where academic achievement and enrollment have improved substantially although the school’s test scores remain low overall.
This fall, Green Dot took control of Clay Middle School and half of Jordan High School.
Canter succeeds Shane Martin, dean of the Loyola Marymount University School of Education.
Green Dot’s new vice-chair is UCLA Vice Chancellor Kevin Reed. Reed was the head attorney for the Los