Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Middle School is located on 4066 W. 17th Street in Los Angeles, California. It was formerly called Mount Vernon Middle School. In 2002, KCET, then the local PBS station, produced a 17-minute documentary on the school and its "severe problems". According to the documentary: "the school is overcrowded and poorly maintained; teachers are not following state curriculum and have low expectations of students; and a lack of schoolwide policies and communication has translated into poor morale."On January 26, 2006, the school board voted to change the name of the school to honor Johnnie Cochran, who was a student at there in the 1950s. Many people questioned this because of Cochran's involvement in the controversial O. J. Simpson murder case.. }
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- Johnnie_L._Cochran_Jr._Middle_School abstract "Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Middle School is located on 4066 W. 17th Street in Los Angeles, California. It was formerly called Mount Vernon Middle School. In 2002, KCET, then the local PBS station, produced a 17-minute documentary on the school and its "severe problems". According to the documentary: "the school is overcrowded and poorly maintained; teachers are not following state curriculum and have low expectations of students; and a lack of schoolwide policies and communication has translated into poor morale."On January 26, 2006, the school board voted to change the name of the school to honor Johnnie Cochran, who was a student at there in the 1950s. Many people questioned this because of Cochran's involvement in the controversial O. J. Simpson murder case.".