Jackie Kennedy: Middle School
Small schools are experimenting with controlling their own budgets. That means that decisions that used to be made by districts are now in the hands of school principals. With that freedom comes a host of tough choices: books or teachers? Snacks or security guards?
Principal Lucinda Taylor has to make those kinds of choices all the time. She runs a middle school in East Oakland—it's one of the recently created small schools. Taylor says she wanted to teach middle school because many of the systemic and social issues that pull kids away from schools and to the streets—like poverty and gangs— start before high school. Jackie Kennedy has this profile.
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