USD School of Law Alumnus Curtis M. Jackson ’18 (JD) Appointed to Board of Directors at Alliance College-Ready Public Schools

Curtis M. Jackson ’18 (JD) Appointed to Board of Directors at Alliance College-Ready Public Schools

SAN DIEGO (December 11, 2018) – University of San Diego (USD) School of Law alumnus Curtis Jackson, ’18 (JD), has been appointed to a non-profit charter school system in Los Angeles County named Alliance College-Ready Public Schools.

The school system is the largest charter school network in Los Angeles, larger than 75 percent of all school districts in California, and has 13,000 students in 25 high-performing, tuition-free high school and middle school academies. 98 percent of the students are low-income Latinos and African Americans, and 95 percent graduate and are accepted to colleges. Alliance schools have been recognized among the best in the nation by US News & World Report, Newsweek, the U.S. Department of Education and the California Department of Education.

Jackson is currently a real estate manager for the City of Carlsbad and three years prior, he was property manager for the City of Oceanside. He serves as chief of staff to the Western Regional Black Law Students Association (WRBLSA), a position he has held since 2017. He received his Juris Doctor from USD School of Law and served as co-president of Black Law Students Association (BLSA), a position he held his final year (Jackson joined the organization his 1L year and was vice-president his 2L year).

About the University of San Diego School of Law

Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world.  The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates.  The law school's faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 36th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 29th nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.