Alliance College-Ready Public Schools is a not-for-profit organization which operates charter schools in Los Angeles. Based at the Frank E. Baxter Education Complex, it is governed by a board of 27 directors and represented by president & CEO Dan Katzir.
Schools
, Alliance College-Ready Public Schools operates 17 high schools and 10 middle schools. ; High Schools
Alliance Alice M. Baxter College-Ready High School, San Pedro
Alliance Cindy & Bill Simon Technology Academy HS, South Los Angeles/Watts, East Los Angeles
Alliance William & Carol Ouchi High School, Hyde Park/Watts, South Los Angeles/East Los Angeles
; Middle Schools
Alliance Christine O’Donovan Middle Academy, South Los Angeles/Watts
Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 4, South Los Angeles/Watts
Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 5, Glassell Park/Lincoln Heights
Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 8, East Los Angeles
Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 12, South Los Angeles/Watts
Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 21, Sun Valley
Alliance Jack H. Skirball Middle School, South Los Angeles/Watts
Alliance Kory Hunter Middle School, Huntington Park
Alliance Leadership Middle Academy, South Los Angeles/Watts
Alliance Richard Merkin Middle School, Downtown Los Angeles
History
LA Alliance was created in 2004 by business and community leaders involved in the Los Angeles Educational Alliance For Restructuring Now reform effort of the early 1990s in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Following massive budget issues at Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools, another charter school organization in Los Angeles, there were rumors that LA Alliance would take over the ICEF schools in March 2011. Former LA Mayor Richard Riordan was negotiating the merger as a member of both boards of directors. The combined organization would have operated 30 schools with over 12,000 students, however the deal fell through over financial concerns and other complications.
Teachers
Since March 2015, teachers at LA Alliance have been engaged in a union organizing campaign. That month, 70 teachers told LA Alliance that they wanted the United Teachers Los Angeles to represent them and asked the company to refrain from interfering. LA Alliance created a website called that opposes the organizing effort. UTLA filed three unfair labor practice charges with California’s Public Employment Relations Board in August 2015 that accuses LA Alliance of retaliation and refusing to meet with union organizers. In October 2015, PERB asked the court for injunctive relief. The Los Angeles County Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order on October 30 and ordered LA Alliance to not “coerce or ask teachers about their positions on unionization, must allow organizers to come onto school grounds, cannot block emails from the union, and must stay 100 feet away from UTLA organizers.”
Leadership
Judy Burton, a long time Los Angeles Unified School District employee, left the district in 2003 to help found LA Alliance. She served as President/CEO until returning to the district in December 2014. The following month, Dan Katzir took over as President/CEO. Katzir previously worked as a consultant and as the Managing Director of the Broad Foundation. Former LAUSD principal Howard Lappin was hired for school year 2004-05 to run College-Ready Academy High School. He helped turnaround Foshay Learning Center.
