QEIA Progress Report: TEACHER-LED REFORM HELPING IN CALIFORNIA By Amy Buffenbarger | from The Priority Schools Campaign/NEA website | http://bit.ly/hMx6UF November 30, 2010 - A new report out today finds a 50 percent better academic growth rate at nearly 500 California schools, and all of it is the result of ...
Mendez vs. Westminster: CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY IN ORANGE COUNTY - Years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Gonzalo Mendez, Lorenzo Ramirez and other working parents led a battle that forced school districts in central Orange County to integrate. By Hector Tobar | LA Times columnist | http://lat.ms/glF2QJ The first-grade class at Hoover School in 1944. It was one of the campuses affected by the federal Mendez et al vs. Westminster decision of 1947. (December 2, 2010) December 3, 2010 ...
