An encore story
Beverly Ryder
From corporate executive to school leader
Beverly Ryder has come full circle. A product of Los Angeles’ postwar black middle class, Ryder graduated from Dorsey High in 1968. And now she’s back at a high school in her hometown, trying to help revive public school education in a city where half the high schools are designated as failing and fewer than half of high school students graduate.
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