Our Mission

Hope Change Choices is dedicated to making school choice as accessible as possible for Los Angeles Unified parents. We believe that every family should know all their options.
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A better charter map 2011-12

A better charter map 2011-12

  The California Charter School Association has a great map of charter schools in the LA area.  The CCSA map is better than anything we could do on our own.  I like that all cities are represented in this map and not just LAUSD schools.  Every bubble here has a link to the school’s respective...
A new style of Magnet Map 2012-13

A new style of Magnet Map 2012-13

HopeChangeChoices.org is excited to bring back the Magnet Map.  Unfortunately Google has prevented us from creating our traditional style of Magnet Map.  Google has given us a new, richer, tool called a fusion table.  You now have the ability to set filters to help you select just the schools you want to display. Here is the...

Open Enrollment 2011-12

If you didn’t get into the school of your choice, chances are you can still find a terrific school through Open Enrollment.   270 campuses in LAUSD are seeking students to fills its classrooms, nearly 10,000 seats altogether (more details from LAUSD in English. or In Spanish.).  Open enrollment is as strong as ever with more campuses enrolling than...

HCC’s list of top Schools in Los Angeles (part 1 of 3)

We’re doing for LA schools what US News and World Report does for America’s Colleges.  We are ranking LA schools from number 1 to dead last.  Okay that’s not true.  But it does lead to a few questions that we are breaking into a 3 part series.  First why do you want to choose a...

Magnet Time

The Magnet School, Permit with Transport, and Public School Choice application is getting mailed home now.  There are lots of changes for the better so lets highlight a few. The list of schools has been redesigned for easy reading.  English Version.  Spanish Version. Local District Magnet Fairs for LD 3 and LD 4.  Both are...

Open Enrollment Map

View Larger Map The Green dots represent High Schools in LAUSD accepting open enrollment. The API number is like a grade for a school, anything over 700 is very good, above 600 is average for LAUSD. The CASHEE pass rate is a combined average of both math and English passing rates for the High School....

Charters on a map

Hope.Change.Choices is pleased to release a map with what we believe to be the most complete list of Charter Schools in Los Angeles. Elementary Schools are in Red. High Schools are in Green. Middle Schools are in Blue. Click on a place mark for more information on the school. If you see any errors or...