California's bold plan dramatically expands the traditional definition of a public school, overhauling campuses into neighborhood centers to meet the needs of students.
This is the dream, at least. The challenge is pulling it off.waves of exhausted educators leave the profession
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has dedicated $166 million to a network of at least five regional technical assistance centers, co-led by the Alameda County Office of Education and the UCLA Center for Community Schooling, that will guide districts and monitor progress. EduCare coordinator Jennie Rosenbaum in the courtyard where she works with high school students at Social Justice Humanitas Academy in San Fernando.
The school partners with EduCare, a nonprofit that connects the school to social service and funds Rosenbaum’s job. Organizations like Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services provide individual, group and family therapy. Through these partnerships and others, the school has connected families with temporary shelter, food and legal assistance.and each teacher “adopts” three or four pupils who are struggling academically or otherwise and checks in with them regularly.
Humanitas — founded in 2011 by a group of Sylmar High teachers seeking to create a small autonomous campus within L.A. Unified — served 519 students in 2020-21, and all but a handful are Latino. Ninety-three percent were identified as economically disadvantaged. The school consistently outperforms its L.A. Unified counterparts.On Common Core-aligned state assessments in 2019, 72% of students met or exceeded standards for English language arts, compared with the district average of 53%.
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