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Urban Learning Centers to be Featured as Part of School Reform Documentary THE LOS ANGELES EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP'S Urban Learning Centers is one of seven nationally recognized school reform designs featured in a series to be broadcast on Los Angeles Channel 36. The nine-part documentary, called New American Schools: Getting Better by Design, examines the role the seven New American School Design teams play in helping schools working to restructure themselves. The television series is a project of the Annenberg Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in cooperation with New American Schools, a national non-profit comprehensive school reform organization. The program on Urban Learning Centers will be broadcast on Los Angeles Channel 36 on Monday, December 6 at 1 p.m. The other segments of the nine-part series will be broadcast at 1 p.m. on October 18 and 25, November 1, 8, and 29, and December 13. LA 36 will again air the series after the first of the year. LA 36, available as a basic service to cable subscribers in the city of Los Angeles, airs educational programming for teachers, students and life-long learners. Since 1992, Urban Learning Centers has provided design-based technical assistance to low-achieving urban schools committed to comprehensive school restructuring. Urban Learning Centers first began working in two demonstration sites in the Los Angeles area: Foshay and Elizabeth Learning Centers. Eighteen schools in the Manual Arts cluster in south Los Angeles began reform work in 1996. This fall, Urban Learning Centers began reform work at five schools in Compton and at urban schools in the states of Utah and Arizona and is continuing its work at more than 20 schools in the Los Angeles area.