LA Unified board unanimously approves girls-only STEM school

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2015-09-09 06:01

Story here. Excerpt:

'Thanks to an unanimous vote by the LA Unified school board yesterday, the district will become the first in California in a decade to open a girls-only traditional public school.

The approval of the the school was anti-climactic in that the board had already approved it by a vote in April, but at the time needed to still secure a waiver from the state Department of Education, which it now has.

The vote dedicates over $231,000 for the district to convert a traditional classroom building at Los Angeles High School in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood into the new Girls Academic Leadership Academy. The school, which is scheduled to open next fall with space for 450 students, will begin with students only in 6th and 9th grades and will grow one grade level each year.'

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Well, that's a great decision. Money well spent, if you ask me. Obviously, before this decision was made, girls weren't allowed to study STEM in schools. . .

Thank goodness this money didn't go into reading programs, seeing that LA is a city with a lot of poor neighbourhoods, and inevitably higher illiteracy rates. But I suppose helping both boys and girls to read is a far lesser problem than tying to engage girls in subjects they're clearly not that interested in.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Wed, 2015-09-09 23:09