LAAMP collection, 1984-2001, bulk 1994-2000.

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LAAMP collection, 1984-2001, bulk 1994-2000.

The collection contains the records of LAAMP (Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project). The holdings in this collection document the entire history of LAAMP, from its beginning in 1994 to its disbanding in 2001. The majority of the collection's holdings consists of textual materials: subject files, correspondence, minutes and agendas of committee meetings, reports and studies, brochures, and publications on educational reforms. Also, a few photos and disks are included in the collection. Materials dating before 1994 did not originate with LAAMP, but were utilized by LAAMP as source material.

177 boxes.

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Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project.

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LAAMP (Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project), was a nonprofit educational reform organization funded by the Annenberg Foundation for the improvement of the Los Angeles Unified School District. LAAMP's strategy centered on developing school families to develop stabile schools characterized by coordinated educational policies that cut across grade levels. LAAMP employed specific policies for curriculum and assessment tools that allowed the use of student data to shape instruction. Results fr...

Casillas, María.

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Los Angeles Unified School District

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Crawford et al. v. Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles et al. was a case in which the California Supreme Court ordered the Los Angeles Unified School District to formulate a feasible plan to desegregate its schools. In 1977 the LAUSD came up with a plan that was later deemed one of if not the most drastic plans of mandatory student reassignment in the nation. The board proposed a desegregation busing plan which would be implemented in 1978. In response to the proposal the group Bustop ...