Results tagged “crenshawhigh”

Yesterday, September 20th, was the day that Mychal Bell was to be sentenced after being found guilty as an adult on the charge of aggravated battery. Prosecutors were asking for a sentence of 22 years at one point, then reduced it to 15 years. Last Friday the appeals court overturned his conviction. The court determined that Bell, who was 16 at the time, should not have have been tried as an adult. In spite...

The founder of Homeboy Industries tells a Trenton-New Jersey paper that LA's war on gangs has been exactly the wrong way to deal with the problem. The Trenton Times writes about how their mayor is approaching their local gang situation (which features less than a thousand active gang members) in comparison to other cities across the nation. While, according to Father Boyle, LA continues to throw police and muscle at our thousands and thousands of gang members, cities like Boston and Philly that are focusing more on self-help than criminal prosecution and incarceration.

That seems to be the question of the day with an area high school losing its accreditation for the first time in 30 years. Martini Republic's LA blog and Mayor Sam's Sister City both want to know how Crenshaw High School has been allowed to get so bad. Crenshaw High's website doesn't have any information about what the school is doing to regain accreditation and LAUSD's Budget Board Meeting tomorrow doesn't appear to have the school on its agenda (or any information on its website for concerned parents about what losing accreditation means, how it will effect their students, particularly those graduating this next school year, or how they are addressing the problem) so the question remains: How does a school with 2 magnet programs (a gifted program and a teacher training program -- no, the irony isn't lost on us) and a home page claiming "We're Number One" fail its students this badly?