Deal would let L.A. teachers create "pilot schools"

12-03-2009

Blog by Howard Blume/LA Now Los Angeles Times

Local school officials and the teachers union have reached a tentative deal that would help groups of teachers bid for control of 30 campuses under a recently adopted school-reform plan. The agreement, announced today, would allow the number of “pilot schools” in the Los Angeles Unified School District to increase from 10 to 30. Pilots are small schools where teachers, administrators and community members have broad latitude to establish the rules under which the school operates. Unlike charter schools, the pilots remain closely affiliated with the district, and employees retain their representation by district unions. L.A. Unified officials have characterized the first group of 10 pilots as successful, and United Teachers Los Angeles, the L.A. teachers union, has also endorsed them. (more...)

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