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March 19, 2009President Obama Holds Town Hall Meeting at LAUSD Pilot School; Coalition of Essential Schools Affiliate Academic Leadership Community Opens Doors for Presidential Visit |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: LAUSD's Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, home to the Academic Leadership Community (ALC), an affiliate of the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES), is the site of the second of two town hall meetings led by President Barack Obama during his visit to Southern California. ALC, a small school housed in the downtown educational complex, is a Belmont Pilot school, part of a network of 10 high-caliber, autonomous public schools that are the result of a groundbreaking agreement between Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and United Teachers Los Angeles, brokered by LAUSD Local District 4 with support from the Los Angeles Small Schools Center and the Center for Collaborative Education, both affiliate centers of CES. ALC is a college prep school with a strong focus on building leadership, academic skills, and self reflection in order to prepare students to succeed in college and careers. Earlier this year, President Obama visited Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., describing it as an innovative school that "is an example of how all our schools should be." ALC is one of 10 proposed Belmont Pilot schools that are located within LAUSD Local District 4 in the Belmont Zone of Choice (BZC), an open-enrollment zone in the Pico Union area of East Los Angeles. AScribe transmits news releases directly to newsroom computer systems and desktops of major media organizations via a supremely trusted channel - The Associated Press.
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