History and Timeline
The Alliance has a rich history of pursuing educational excellence for all public school students in Los Angeles. Incorporated in 1991 as LEARN, Los Angeles Educational Alliance for Reform Now, the organization focused on advocating for systemic reform in the Los Angeles Unified School District.Later, the organization led the Los Angeles Educational Alliance for Reform Now (LEARN) and the Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project (LAAMP) as the LAAMP/LEARN Regional School Reform Alliance. LAAMP was part of a national Annenberg Challenge, a half-billion dollar private effort to improve public schools in the United States.
After completing both reform initiatives, the organization became known as the Los Angeles County Alliance for Student Achievement. With the new name came a new mission: assessing the effectiveness of previous reform efforts. Findings indicated that charter schools would be the most efficient and effective way to ensure improvements within the district.
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools was formed as a nonprofit charter management organization working to create a network of small high-performing 9-12 and 6-8 public schools in some of the neediest areas of Los Angeles.
Key Milestones
2004: Gertz-Ressler High School opens.
2005: Heritage College-Ready Academy High School, Huntington Park College-Ready Academy High School and Richard Merkin Middle School open.
2006: College-Ready Academy High School #4, William and Carol Ouchi High School and Marc & Eva Stern Math and Science School open.
2007: College-Ready Academy High School #5, College-Ready Academy High School #7
and Jack H. Skirball Middle School open.
2008: College-Ready Middle Academy #3 opens.
2009: Environmental Science & Technology High School, Health Services Academy High School, Media Arts & Entertainment Design High School, College-Ready Middle Academy #4 and College-Ready Middle Academy #5 open.