MLC’s Founders and History

MLC opened in the fall of 2001 led by co-founders Toby Bornstein and Gayle Nadler. The mother-daughter team came up with the “dream” of MLC after reflecting on their experiences with education in Los Angeles. The vision of MLC comes from the family’s experience in the late 1970’s when Toby, a proponent of integration voluntarily put her children on a school bus to the inner city 20 miles away. During this time 9-year-old Gayle learned the true beauty of the diversity of Los Angeles as well as the many barriers that separated her from her Spanish-speaking Latino classmates. The realization of social injustice as a child evolved into the promise of a mother: “My children will go to a school where they are free to make friends with their classmates and not give a second thought to the differences that separate them.” With the birth of MLC—that promise became a reality for Gayle’s children, Toby’s grandchildren, and many, many others. At MLC, language and culture do not separate children - they unite them.  

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• Toby Bornstein and Gayle Nadler Bios
• News Article from Los Angeles Times about the Bornstein Family and their Dream