CBS2 to air special on LAUSD on Eye on Our Community: Taking Back the Classroom this Sunday, March 6th at 6:30pm
CBS2 anchor Laura Diaz takes a look at the school reform movement in Los Angeles in a half hour special “Eye on Our Community: Taking Back the Classroom” this Sunday, at 6:30pm on CBS2.
Diaz looks at efforts made by the organization United Way of Greater Los Angeles that is struggling to get children into schools that prepare them for the future and out of “drop out or failure factories” that have plagued the country’s second largest school district, LAUSD.
She also speaks with director Davis Guggenheim of the critically-acclaimed movie “Waiting for Superman” who talks about national efforts to reform the public education system. The film has a strong social action campaign trying to organize the school reform movement in the country’s largest cities with the highest drop out rates.
Diaz speaks with parents, incoming new LAUSD superintendent John Deasy, as well as educational experts to find out where Los Angeles is headed as it attempts to educate its children for today’s global economy. Diaz also takes a look at school safety after the recent episodes of shootings on and near LAUSD campuses.
Finally, Diaz profiles LAUSD’s Florence Nightingale Middle School that is using a new methodology of teaching called Big Picture Learning.
