Neal Kleiner:  

Life My life has been an attempt to live out my father’s dream: to make this world a better place and bring people together. In all of my years of teaching and administration, my goal has been to get students, parents, teachers, and administrators to work together for the welfare of our students. That has been my mission throughout my career. I have lived all of my life in and around Los Angeles. I attended Los Angeles Unified School District since the fifth grade, graduated from James Monroe High School in 1963 and earned my degree from UCLA in 1967. I stayed another year to earn my lifetime secondary teaching credential. In the fall of 1968, I started teaching at Alaine Locke High School and this year retired after thirty-eight years with LAUSD. As a youngster, I lived briefly in Norwalk, most of the other early years just on the Los Angeles side of Forrest Lawn. I went to Fletcher Drive Elementary School and Washington Irving Junior High until we moved to the San Fernando Valley. I attended Patrick Henry Junior High until Porter was built and graduated from Porter Junior High in 1960. All three years of high school were at Monroe. As an adult, I have lived in the 7th School Board District. I lived first in Gardena, and later in Carson. The last twenty-seven years I have resided in the same house in San Pedro. I have two children who both graduated from San Pedro High School. My daughter works as an Assistant Principal in Redondo Beach and my son is a music producer. I am very proud of both of them as well as my one grandson who is in elementary school in San Pedro and is a special needs student. After thirteen years at Locke, I worked for eleven more as a Dean of Students at Stephen White Junior High in Carson. It was there that I completed my Master’s Degree in Education and also my Administrative Credential through Cal ...Expand for more