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Article: LEARNING LESSONS.(interview with Los Angeles Unified School District president Caprice Young)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
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- July 30, 2001
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Impatient with the pace of changes at LAUSD, new school board president Caprice Young is pushing for faster decisions and greater authority at the district's local level
CAPRICE Young joined the L.A. Unified School District board two years ago as one of former Mayor Richard Riordan's reform candidates. At the time, the school district was in crisis: student test scores were falling, classrooms were getting more overcrowded by the month and the district was consumed by the Belmont Learning Complex scandal. Young and the other reform board members, led by board president Genethia Hayes moved quickly, firing then-superintendent Ruben Zacarias, stopping construction ...