Quotable:
"There are places in America where if you really saw what was going on, as Americans, we would be totally embarrassed. It's Katrina happening without the floods....It's so ugly we have decided not to look at it."
-Geoff Canada, president and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone
"The 'Inconvenient Truth' of Educational Inequity," Digital Education
Notable:
29:
Percentage of English Language Learners in Los Angeles who are still in ELL programs in 8th grade, according to a recent study.
"Study: English-Learning Too Slow in L.A. Schools," Associated Press