A 7th Grader’s Surprise – How to Keep Up with School While Social Distancing
My heart sank when I learned the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest district in the country, wasRead More…
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Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza is an environmental attorney. She grew up in Montebello, where her parents still live, and is a proud graduate of Montebello High School, Stanford University (where she earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies) and UCLA School of Law. She is currently a President Barack Obama appointee to the international Joint Public Advisory Committee of the Commission on Environmental Cooperation, which monitors continental environmental impacts of NAFTA. She lives in the San Fernando Valley with her husband and precocious 8 year-old daughter.
Posts by Jerilyn:
My Daughter’s LAUSD Magnet is Making News: Other Latino students Deserve Opportunities to Succeed like this
I think it’s fair to say that standardized testing is, at best, only one measure of student academic potential and,Read More…
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Magnet Schools for this Mami: Forcing LAUSD to Work for My Daughter
I’m not bragging when I say, “My daughter is smart.” I started reading to her when she was a newborn. AtRead More…
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