Los Angeles Unified School District

Mission Statement

The mission of the Transformation Model Schools Program is to provide an instructional program and an organizational design that is language intensive and will reverse the pattern of poor academic achievement of African American and other students in Predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian and Other Non-Anglo (PHBAO) schools. This will be accomplished through on going coordinated relevant staff development supported by a home/school partnership.

History

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) implemented the Transformation Model Schools Program (TMSP) during the summer of 1987. It is a research-based instructional program designed to restructure and organize ten schools so that all students could achieve to their fullest potential when given optimum learning conditions. The ten (10) lowest achieving elementary schools in LAUSD with a predominantly African-American student population were selected to participate. Currently, the TMSP student population is predominantly African American and Hispanic. The original schools selected for the Ten Schools Program were:

         * Birdielee V. Bright Elementary                    * Charles Barrett Elementary
         * Compton Avenue Elementary                     * Griffith-Joyner Elementary
         * Lovelia Flournoy Elementary                      * Martin L. King Elementary
         * McKinley Avenue Elementary                    * 93rd Street Elementary
         * 96th Street Elementary                              * 112th Street Elementary

Currently, there are  twelve schools within the Transformational Model Schools Program. In 1998, 116th Street and 118th Street were added. In 2002, Avalon Gardens, Horace Mann and Cochran MS were added to the program.