If Jeimy Carrasco had $50 million, she would remake Roosevelt High School into a place of smaller classes and stronger student-teacher relationships, and put an end to droning lectures and dry textbooks in favor of more active learning.
Adriana Meza at Lincoln High would bring in salad bars and more college counselors. Viviana Martin Del Campo would remove police from Central High and bring in more restorative justice coordinators trained to help students change their behavior, not just punish them.
The ideas of these three Los Angeles students could become more than wishful thinking. They now have a chance to add their voices to a $50-million national competition to redesign American public high schools that was officially launched Wednesday by Laurene Powell Jobs.
[For more of this story, written by Teresa Watanabe, go to http://www.latimes.com/local/l...-20150916-story.html]
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