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The Parent Trigger warriors of Watts: How a Special Forces Hero and a Group of Moms Took Back Weigand Elementary |
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
The Parent Trigger warriors of Watts: How a Special Forces Hero and a Group of Moms Took Back Weigand Elementary
To understand how far Weigand fell, on average 54 percent of the students across all grades were proficient or advanced in math under Pasilla; under Cobian, 33 percent are. Under Pasilla, Weigand was a 5 in the Similar Schools Rankings, in which 100 socioeconomically identical schools are compared on a 1 to 10 scale statewide. But as impoverished schools continually improved statewide in recent years, Weigand fell back, plummeting to a 2 in the Similar Schools Ranking — which LAUSD Superintendent of Schools John Deasy calls "disastrous."The mostly young and Latino mothers wanted to remove Cobian by gathering signatures under Parent Trigger.
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