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Published on Thursday, 14 April 2011 00:00

Written by Gavin Glynn

School bells are ringing louder in West Adams!

Marguerite LaMotte was re-elected to the LAUSD School Board last March 8th, 2011.  She was backed by the powerful UTLA union with $325,000 dollars toward her campaign. Ms. LaMotte has faithfully approved all raises for teachers.

- Arlington Heights middle school added 17 newly constructed classrooms and their API scores jumped to 718.

- Cochran MS enrollment has dropped from 2,600 students to 1,500 and is expected to be even lower , to 1,100 next year. The principal has expressed interest in converting Cochran into a Magnet School for music and public debate.

- LA High School has returned to a regular single track school after two decades and has announced it is looking for offers from Charter School operators.

- Pacific Charter schools received 500K dollars from the Reardon Foundation to keep its schools open, namely our Frederick Douglas campus on West Adams.

- Mid-City Magnet will be converting to a 100% magnet elementary (very rare opportunity) which will house 2 classrooms for every grade level from 1st to 5th grade. All 60 5th grades will matriculate to LACES (Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies) the highest rate API school within LAUSD.

- Carson-Gore El. had to offer its pre-K school to a charter school since they ran out of federal money for their LAUSD program.

- Open Charter (LAUSD sanctioned) is scouting West Adams for a new location to mirror its success of their Westchester & Bel-Air campuses.

- Chris Carlson of Western Heights has been our Integrated Services (Magnet) host for the past several years to educate West Adams residences on how to select the best school for your child.

- Mid-City Charter has opened enrollment for their campus on Washington Blvd.

- 24th Street School now houses Crown Charter School on their schoolyard specializing in boot-camp discipline.

- Superintendent Cortines (80) is retiring this May and John Deasy (Daisy) of Santa Monica School District will replace him.

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