PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS

LOS ANGELES, California, 90017 United States

Mission Statement

The Partnership's mission is to transform schools and revolutionize school systems to empower all students with a high-quality education. We achieve our mission by dramatically accelerating academic proficiency for students in the Los Angeles Unified School District's highest-poverty schools, and by removing barriers, pioneering new programs and scaling success to benefit all LAUSD students.

About This Cause

The Partnership considers a high-quality public education to be a civil right, one that we are determined to ensure for not only the more than 13,000 students enrolled in our 20 network schools, but for all 550,000 LA Unified students. A first-rate education provides learning opportunities that inspire joy within a space where students feel safe to share their histories, cultures and voices. Within this environment, scholars build the skills, knowledge, social-emotional resilience and awareness that will move them to and through a four-year college or university. The Partnership holds college completion as our North Star because a bachelor’s degree is a proven pathway to significantly greater economic mobility compared to a high school diploma or its equivalent. College completion can be life-changing for our scholars and similarly marginalized students, as well as their families. The Partnership was founded as a nonprofit organization in 2007 to address the public education crisis in Los Angeles. Fifteen years on, some inequities are as obvious as the run-down facilities of an under-invested school, while others remain buried in the weeds of LA Unified policies and practices. We have vowed to eradicate the inequities manifested in high-need district schools and those that place a systemic stranglehold on the future of LA Unified’s most-vulnerable students. We remain committed to the difficult, often arduous, process of what comes next: developing, piloting and refining alternatives that transform schools, uplift marginalized students and remain sustainable when implemented at scale by LA Unified.

PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS
1055 Wilshire Blvd Suite 1850
LOS ANGELES, California 90017
United States
Phone 213-201-2000
Unique Identifier 261759681