Both new schools in LA are set to launch in fall 2022. Besides Clooney, the magnet school is set to involve actors/producers Eva Longoria, Grant Heslov, Kerry Washington, and Nicole Avant, along with Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, the founders of Working Title Films, and Bryan Lourd, the co-chairman of Creative Artists Agency.
The school will be called the Roybal School of Film and Television Production, and the founding members will serve on the school's board to "build a more inclusive pipeline of career-ready talent for the film and television industry," the district said.
The celebrities, or at least people in their web of influence and expertise, will collaborate with district staff to design curriculum that ties academics to real-world work. That could mean the chemistry of makeup application or the physics of set design and lighting, Beutner said.
"The idea is we create a curriculum that we can then scale to 22 more schools," Beutner said in an interview. "They can also help kids get access to internships."
Young and Iovine's school, in south Los Angeles, is slated to help students make connections between the creative, finance and marketing side of the music industry.
"We’re here strictly for the kids and trying to give them a future and something promising that maybe wasn’t available before now," Young said at a news conference.
Other celebrities have launched charter schools, which are public schools managed by private companies, in their hometowns.
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