Press Releases
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Humanitas in New Esteban E. Torres High School
Los Angeles (February 2010) – As an outcome of LAUSD's Public School Choice process on February 23, the new Esteban E. Torres high school campus in East Los Angeles, built for five small schools, will be operated by five teacher-developed pilot schools. Support for the design teams was provided by the Humanitas initiative at Los Angeles Education Partnership (LAEP).
Humanitas High School Students Examine the Right to Privacy
Los Angeles (April 2009) – The theater in the National Center for the Preservation for Democracy buzzed with discussion among high school students who attended a debate between their peers about the government’s role in protecting privacy rights. As part of a conference entitled Just Between Us, the debate was a culminating event that took place after students and their teachers spent months researching constitutional issues around the right to privacy. One hundred and forty students from five high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) who are part of the Humanitas network, an initiative of the Urban Education Partnership (UEP), participated in this educational experience and conference.
 Humanitas and "Just Between Us" news release |
A Message from Peggy Funkhouser, President & CEO
Los Angeles (April 2008) - As the nation recalled the famous “A Nation at Risk” report released 25 years ago in April of 1983, I have a memory of my own. I was driving to a meeting to discuss the state of public education in California. On the radio, the newscaster spoke about “A Nation at Risk,” a newly released federal report full of grim facts about the nation’s public schools. Little did I realize then, that 26 years later many of the same issues would remain on the public agenda.