A Famed Reformer Resigns
McKenna’s return to L.A. Unified lasts one year
At this point, McKenna supporters are not calling for his return, only a clarification on why and under what terms he left. However the matter ends up, it has forged some compelling new alliances. Bakewell and other African-Americans are standing with Ybarra in an area of the city where black-Latino tensions have run particularly high. At least for a moment, there is black-and-brown unity over a common concern of schools -- something that actually matters. The rabble-rousing Bakewell is exercising uncharacteristic restraint in stressing the importance of due process and education, not race, in his latest fight-the-power campaign. Ybarra articulated best the broad bottom line for everyone. “The issue here,” he said, “is that unless we change educational trends, our kids are going to be service workers or slaves.”
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