From WSJopinion: Urban public schools in America have been failing for generations. Yet the turnaround of one public school shows how progress can be made, writes former L.A. Mayor AVillaraigosa.
Mayor de Blasio may identify as a progressive champion of the underprivileged, but the reality is that he’s blocking the surest path to the middle class by relegating the city’s poor to inferior schools. Image: Richard Drew / APUrban public schools in America have been failing for generations.
Yet the turnaround of one public school shows how progress can be made. When parents and an education-reform nonprofit recently stepped in to take control of Twentieth Street Elementary, one of the lowest-performing schools in Los Angeles, the result was transformational. The same combination can work for lagging schools nationwide.
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