Message From Manual Arts
The people who work and learn inside the faded, peach-colored walls of Manual Arts High School want everyone to know they're trying. They've got some good things going. They also know what blocks them from having a terrific school, and like so many schools in this troubled district, they need tremendous help to make the leap.
Los Angeles has a new superintendent of schools: Roy Romer, the three-term governor of Colorado and former general chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The students and staff at Manual Arts need his help.
But leaders like Romer seem largely irrelevant inside the high, padlocked gates of this school on Vermont Avenue, within sight of the old Olympic grounds and coliseum, in the infamous, loosely defined, now largely Latino...
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