For East Los Angeles community organizer Maria León, parent and student engagement in neighborhood schools is nothing new. Her community has spent the past decade making L.A. Unified district officials listen and respond to its needs, long before districts were required to do so under California’s new Local Control Funding Formula.
Marin (she/her/hers) joins The Education Trust-West with a background in supporting the non-profit and postsecondary sector in administrative, operational,…