LAUSD's goal should be better schools

Reform efforts shouldn't be allowed to bog down in bickering over work rules and the like. Editorial/Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Unified School District is trying to make the transition from a centralized bureaucracy that dictates the minutiae of daily education in its schools to a model that confers more power on individual schools and holds them accountable for the results. Yet the central office still seems to have trouble knowing when to let go. Its waffling is the latest obstacle to the district's new initiative to open perhaps 250 schools to outside management, such as charter operators or community organizations. Groups of teachers would like to submit applications to run some of the schools, but United Teachers Los Angeles is still at odds with district management over what kinds of teacher contracts would prevail at those campuses. The union wants its usual contract, heavy with work rules that govern everything, down to how much schoolyard duty a teacher can perform. (more...)

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