LA’s Mike Piscal, last seen on this blog over the summer after we literally bumped into the guy who supposedly evented the wave at sporting events, is blogging again over at Huffington Post, describing the ambitious plans to grow the ICEF network of charter schools in South Los Angeles.
Once it reaches scale, close to one our of every three kids in the area will be able to attend a school that is part of the ICEF Corridor, and they will be able to see more than 2,000 students a year to graduation.
Writes Piscal:
Los Angeles will eventually benefit from the thousands of well-prepared students who will go on to college, graduate, and return to the community set to bring with them economic development and hope. The dilemma that remains is whether the nearby public schools serving the remaining two-thirds of South Los Angeles’s students will respond and help us end this crisis once-and-for-all.