Talk about a guy who likes a tough challenge. Steve Barr, the founder and chairman of Green Dot Public Schools says he can take the worst-performing campuses in Los Angeles and put them on the path toward academic excellence. We talk to Barr about taming L.A.’s blackboard jungle.
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