Description

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The Urban Challenge in Education was written to share the lessons learned by seventeen highly successful charter schools in Los Angeles, CA. It provides readers with a list of characteristics that are common among these outstanding charter schools and can be used as a guide for all schools as they attempt to meet the needs of their students.

About the Author

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Joseph Scollo is a recently retired full-time lecturer of educational leadership, and co-director of the Charter and Autonomous School Leadership Academy at California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). Dona Stevensis an adjunct professor of school leadership at CSUDH, and was a former interim area superintendent for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Ellen Pomella is a retired school administrator, and is currently working as a consultant for the Los Angeles School Development Institute.