Animo Watts

Animo Watts students Rico Hudson,14, left, and Kejon Holloway,15, dissect a squid in Gerard Besina's biology class. For the first time in Los Angeles Unified School District history, a traditional school is being run by an outside organization, Green Dot Public Schools. Green Dot has split Locke, a long-beleaguered campus near Watts, into several smaller academies, including Animo Watts, which accepted only ninth-graders in its first year.

Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times / June 11, 2009

Animo Watts students Rico Hudson,14, left, and Kejon Holloway,15, dissect a squid in Gerard Besina's biology class. For the first time in Los Angeles Unified School District history, a traditional school is being run by an outside organization, Green Dot Public Schools. Green Dot has split Locke, a long-beleaguered campus near Watts, into several smaller academies, including Animo Watts, which accepted only ninth-graders in its first year.

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