Foshay Principal to Run Charter School Group
Howard Lappin, the Los Angeles school principal who earned accolades for turning his impoverished South Los Angeles students into high achievers, is leaving his job to help run a collection of local charter schools, his new employer announced Monday.
For the last 12 years, Lappin has been principal of Foshay Learning Center, a campus of 3,550 students in kindergarten through high school located near USC. Despite overwhelming poverty and other hurdles, Foshay’s students perform better on standardized tests than peers from similar backgrounds. Almost all of the school’s 140 seniors this year have been accepted to college.
Foshay was named a California Distinguished School in 1996.
Lappin, 61, will leave Foshay at the end of August to become vice president and director of development for a nonprofit organization that runs two charter school campuses in the Westlake district and mid-Wilshire area. He will be in charge of raising money to expand the campuses, known as the Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, and their programs.
Lappin’s new employer, Pueblo Nuevo Development, is planning to open two charter middle school campuses next fall.
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