Steve Barr

Future Is Now Schools

Guest

Founder of Future Is Now Schools; founder and former CEO of Green Dot Public Schools, which operates eight charter schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District, as well as two outside the LAUSD

Steve Barr on KCRW

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