Information about the Los Angeles Metro Debate League

1. Los Angeles Metro Debate
League
Local District 5 Meeting
June 8th, 2010

2. Organizational Structure
Public-Private Partnership
LAUSD (Jan Davis - Office of
Curriculum Instruction)
Los Angeles Metropolitan Debate
Commission
National Association for Urban
Debate Leagues
University of Southern California

3. Programming
Free Summer camp for coaches and
students for the upcoming year
Weekly practices for students led by
coaches
6 LAMDL tournaments at local high
schools
Free workshops, training, and support
for coaches and students
Access to the LAMDL and NAUDL
network

4. Student Success
Competitive
Academic
Community

5. Academic - National
 Study published by Briana Mazuk in Journal of
Negro Education
 Increased GPA by .20 (20% of a letter grade)
 50% more likely to reach ACT English Benchmark
 Graduated at a rate of 80% compared to an overall
rate of 55%
 African-American Males
 Increased GPA by .5 (50% of a letter grade)
 70% more likely to reach ACT Reading Benchmark
and twice as likely to reach ACT English Benchmark
 Graduated at a rate of 73% compared to 43%
overall

6. Graduation Rates

7. Graduation Rates
At-risk students

8. College Readiness
Debaters are 50% more likely to
reach ACT English benchmarks

9. College Readiness
At-risk students were 70% more
likely to reach ACT Reading
benchmarks

10. College Success
Amherst UCSD
Brown UCSB
USC SDSU
NYU Pitzer
Cal Poly
Emory
CSULB
Williams
CSULA
UC Berkeley Humboldt
UCLA CSU Fullerton

11. Academic - LA
 Increased GPA for over 75% of debaters from
non-debating year
 Increased number of AP and Honors classes
 91% of students passed the CAHSEE on their
first try compared to LAUSD rate of 67%
 Increased interest in school and increased
leadership within the classroom
 Over 90% of graduating seniors are going to a
4-year university

12. Community Building
 Students led school and regional reforms
 Class and Club Presidents
 Citihood East LA
 UTLA rallies
 Debate Community
 Women’s Debate Institute
 Gonzaga Debate Institute
 Increased interaction among groups of students from
different schools
 Increased interaction with non-LAMDL schools

13. Community Involvement
in local schools
Over $216,000 worth of outside
resources invested in LAUSD
schools through LAMDL
Law
firms, businesses, universities, and
individuals invest both time and
money

14. Competitive Success
 LAMDL Tournaments:
 All but two schools were in elimination rounds
 Balanced Novice program
 Growing interest in advanced debate arguments
 Non-LAMDL Tournaments
 Speaker awards at Long
Beach, USC, Pepperdine, Fullerton, Berkeley
 Won the Berkeley Invitational and the Pepperdine
tournament
 Participated in elim rounds at every tournament

15. Participating Schools
Local District 6 USC Family of Schools
 South East High School  Crenshaw High School
 South Gate High School  Foshay Learning Center
 Bell High School  Manual Arts High School
 Elizabeth Learning Center  Bravo Medical Magnet
 Huntington Park High School
 Maywood Academy High
School Charter
 Stern Math and Sceince
Local District 4 High School
 Downtown Magnets High School  Huntington Park College
 Roybal Learning Center Ready Academy
Local District 5
 Lincoln High School