Bidding to run L.A.'s schools

02-01-2010

Editorial/Los Angeles Times

The initiative that will allow outside operators to run some of the Los Angeles Unified School District's schools moves forward this week as parents at each school (as well as teachers and high school students) vote for their favorite applicants. We opposed these advisory votes from the start, and recent events have only confirmed our belief that they would transform what should be an educational process into a political one. They also put pressure on the school district to pick the "winning" applicants rather than the best ones. The district opened 18 new and 12 existing schools to applicants in this first year of the multiyear Public School Choice initiative. (more...)

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