L.A. Story: Can a Parent Revolution Change Urban Education's Power Structure?
Steve Barr, the founder and chief executive of a nonprofit network of Los Angeles charter schools, is rallying thousands of mostly Latino parents to the cause of school reform and using that political clout to force changes in the 727,000-student Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation's second-largest school system.
Education Sector - Joe Williams and Tom Mirga, 7/25/2006