A Through G Curriculum At LA Unified

Yesterday Roy Romer, LA Unified School Board President Jose Huizar, and a coalition of parents, educators and education activists unveiled an ambitious plan aimed at preparing more L.A. students to attend four-year universities. The group presented the LAUSD School Board with a plan to integrate so-called “A through G classes” into LA high schools by 2008. If passed by the school board, 15 college preparatory classes will be a graduation requirement of every high school student in LAUSD. The reform plan is ambitious, expensive, and some say unrealistic for a school district of this size and complexity. Larry Mantle talks with Jon Lauritzen, Los Angeles Unified School District Board member, John Perez, President of the United Teachers of Los Angeles, Jeannie Oakes, Presidential Professor in Education at UCLA, and Jim Stone III, Director of the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education.