L.A. Unified: Diary of a First-Year Teacher at One of America's Worst Schools

L.A. Unified is the fictional diary of a first-year English teacher at Pico-Union High School, one of America’s worst performing schools in one of Los Angeles’s most dangerous neighborhoods, Pico-Union. The students are apathetic, hostile and lazy; the teachers are burned out and cynical; the administrators are biding time until their next promotion, and the school’s graduation rate and Academic Performance Index are abysmal. To complicate matters, the area is also the birthplace and curren...