Perspectives Charter School isn’t just a school for me. It has given me the foundation to open up my heart. It turned me into a straight-A student, helped me forgive my drug addict birth mom, helped...
From preschool till my freshman year of high school, my grandma and I would commute about 30-40 minutes each day to a different city so I would be able to attend better schools. This is where I...
Middle school can make it or break it for a student. Close to 200,000 students in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) are middle-grade students. That’s 200,000 students who are either...
I realized how lucky I was on my first day as a classroom teacher. Walking into I.S. 162, a large comprehensive middle school in the South Bronx, I immediately recognized the halls, knew the...
There’s a lot of B.S. out there in the world about standards and standardized testing and it’s gotten to the point where for many liberals, misinformation is taken as truth. For example, what I heard...