Sorry, this is going to be a kind of weird rambling post where I have to tie a whole bunch of my thoughts together. But I can’t stop thinking about it, so down the rabbit hole we go. I was reading this article about Citizens of the World Charter (CWC), first published in The 74 […]
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2016 Year in Review
It has been just over 300 days since I started this blog, and in that time, I have written 95 posts. I started it as a dinky little Tumblr account, and have grown into a full-on Blog. And while I started by just sharing this with my students and friends, there are now people, whom I have never […]
Which Schools have Unrepresentative Teaching Staffs?
Would it bother you if there was a school where most of the teachers were white but most of the students were people of color? There are several schools like that in Los Angeles. But oddly, many of them are in Reseda. Reseda? Yes. Reseda. Reseda is located in the West San Fernando Valley, along […]
Which Schools Have the Whitest Teaching Staffs?
Simple question. Which school has the highest percent of white teachers? Would you be surprised if I told you that 15 of the top 20 are charter schools? You might say: Wait, yesterday you said that charter schools’ staffs are pretty much the same as district schools. Well, I was only looking at charter networks. […]
Do charter school teachers’ ethnicities match the district?
I’m baaaaaaaack. Here is a quick question that has been bothering me for a while. I have a very simple wondering: does the ethnic make up of charter school teaching staff match the ethnic make up of LAUSD teaching staffs? This question has come up over and over again in Louisiana. After Hurricane Katrina, a new […]
33 Elementary Schools have Disproportionately High Numbers of Foster Youth – None are Charters.
What does a child need in order to get into a charter school? They need to fill out a form, and get chosen in a lottery. But most of all, they need an advocate – someone who takes the time to fill out that form, turn it in, check on the lottery results, and navigate the […]
Does Diversity improve your School's UC Acceptance Rate?
A few weeks ago, I created a list of the most diverse schools in Los Angeles. Of the top twenty schools, only two were high schools: Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (LACES) and Granada Hills Charter High School. Around the same time, I also calculated the UC acceptance rates for LA High schools. LACES was […]
Where are the White Kids in LAUSD?
This post is about something that everybody knows – but it is still interesting/depressing to look at. As I have noted before, Los Angeles is a place of de-facto segregation – but what does that segregation look like? Below is a heat map that shows the populations of white students in LAUSD Schools. Red represents more white […]
How Ethnically Representative is your School?
Los Angeles is a diverse city. LAUSD mirrors that diversity, as you can see by the enrollment percentages below: However, Los Angeles is also a prime example of what sociologists call “de facto” segregation. Schools are a mirror of that segregation. Many schools pull enrollment from their local areas, which are segregated and they cannot […]
Diversity in LAUSD is What you Might Expect
Yesterday, I created diversity rankings for all LAUSD schools. Let’s take it a step further and map out that diversity. If you zoom in a bit, you can start to see the patterns. The Eastern and Southeastern parts of LAUSD have the least diverse schools. West LA, the Harbor Corridor and the West Valley have more […]