LAUSD begins reform process of low performing schools

02-03-2010

By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez/KPCC

A first-of-its-kind experiment began today at dozens of Los Angeles Unified School District campuses. Teacher-led groups are competing with non-profit organizations to run 36 new and low-performing campuses in the district. Teachers, parents, and students voted for the organizations they’d like to see run their schools. Those groups have campaigned a lot in and around the three dozen campuses. It didn’t stop on election day. About a hundred feet from the polling booth at East L.A.’s Belvedere Middle School, a charter school supporter made her case to a Spanish-speaking parent. The advisory vote here will determine which groups should run five schools in the newly-built Esteban Torres High School nearby. Mary Najera said those campuses should be charter schools. "The kids don’t fall through the cracks, the bad teachers can’t hide." (more...)

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