It's been a long time since Locke High School has been in the news (see this
June 2011 LA Times piece) but it still seems relevant to me. Before the parent trigger, there was the teacher trigger that was used to wrest Locke away from LAUSD and UTLA. Before SIG, there was NCLB restructuring that allowed Green Dot to restaff the school. Before newTLA and the Gates charter-district collaboration initiative, there was AMU, the union of charter teachers (the topic of a WSJ opinion piece
just this week). And before Michelle Rhee and Jonah Edelman and Ben Austin, there was Steve Barr (who's opening a new school in New Orleans next year.)
In any case, I had an hour to walk around the campus a couple of weeks ago before heading to the airport but that was enough time to get a quick sense of things and I thought some of you might be interested.
In all, the school still looks and feels good -- calm, safe, solid. It might even feel a little better than it did last
