You may have been hearing all the buzz about Digital Learning Day on Wednesday, Feb. 1--a national event in which some 33 states, 350,000 students and thousands of educators are participating.
The media will tour classrooms at Dolores Huerta Elementary showcasing the Partnership’s digital learning practices as part of Digital Learning Day.
The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools and Google are pleased to offer an exciting grant opportunity to continue the mission of providing support to Partnership teachers and student education. Apply by 5 PM on January 31, 2012!
The $4 billion philanthropists spend annually on public education is less than 1 percent of the $500 billion America spends on public schools each year. The thousands of committed reformers sent into schools or onto school boards pale in number to the millions of long employed and sometimes entrenched systems in place.
Funnyman George Lopez and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, along with the Partnership for LA Schools and S.H.O.W. (Students Helping Our World), teamed up for a rousing rally at Roosevelt High School in Boyle Height.
As Martin Luther King, Jr. said in his 1963 book, Strength to Love, "Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary." That quote is as true today as when first written. American philanthropy must use some of its enormous wealth to better respond to the economic injustices we face today, and to do so with force and resources well beyond the 5% payout rate. The stakes have simply become too high.
On June 24, the Family and Community Engagement (FACE) team hosted the First Annual Parent College Culmination!
AltaMed Health Services, a non-profit healthcare provider, has adopted the Roosevelt High School Academy of Medical and Health Sciences and will extend medical-related field trips, a backpack donation program, guest speakers, job-shadowing internships, health education and obesity education.
