LAUSD Proposes Radical Change For Middle And High Schools

The Board of Education announced Tuesday that every middle and high school in LAUSD will be divided into smaller schools, undergoing a process that will make them conversion high schools. This means that a school with as many as 5,000 students will be divided into smaller schools, on the same campus, of between 350-500 students. Based on extensive research, other cities have done this, and Los Angeles is following suit. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation just gave the LAUDS a $900,000 planning grant to help towards this conversion. Larry Tash, Director of the Office of School Redesign at the LA Unified School District, and Edward Trimis, Assistant Principal at John H. Francis Polytechnic High School in Sun Valley join Host Larry Mantle to discuss the conversion.