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LEARN COLLECTION (CSLA-14)

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
COLLECTION TITLE AND NUMBER: LEARN Collection, 1974-1999. CSLA-14
ACCESSION NUMBER: 1999.30
COLLECTION SIZE: 149 archival document boxes, 4 oversize boxes
PROCESSING HISTORY: Processed by Joe Purtell. Guide written by Joe Purtell; edited by Clay Stalls. Date: 2001
RELATED COLLECTIONS: LAAMP (Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project). CSLA-16

The collection contains the records of the nonprofit educational reform organization, LEARN (Los Angeles Educational Alliance for Restructuring Now), a major reform movement in one of the nation's largest school systems, the Los Angeles Unified School District. The holdings in this collection span the years from 1974 to 1999 and document the internal and external history of the organization.

To learn more about LEARN and this collection, consult the following sections of this on-line guide.

HISTORY OF LEARN: a brief history of the organization.

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS: This section of the guide explains the organization and arrangement of the collection in series. This page also has links to each series' box and folder lists, which are the indexes to the folder titles and the boxes in which the folders and their contents are stored.

RESEARCH ACCESS: The collection is open for research by appointment with no restrictions under the conditions of the access policy of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University, 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045. To schedule an appointment, please call the Department of Archives and Special Collections at 310-338-5710 or 310-338-5357, or email the department: Special.Collections@lmu.edu. The Research Collection is a program of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles.  

The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles gratefully acknowledges the generous grant from the Haynes Foundation that made possible the processing of the LEARN Collection.