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Teachers union files lawsuit over charter takeovers
- 01-13-2010
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By Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times
The union representing Los Angeles teachers filed a lawsuit Monday to block the potential hand-over of new campuses to charter schools under the district's groundbreaking and controversial school-reform strategy. Charter-school advocates defended the plan's legality as did the Los Angeles Unified School District. The Board of Education approved a resolution in August to turn over 12 long-struggling campuses and 18 new ones to bidders from inside or outside the district, including some charter operators. The long-anticipated lawsuit contends that under state law a new school can only become a charter if at least 50% of its permanent teachers petition for it. The union argues a new school must be staffed by district teachers who would then have the option of converting it to a charter. (more...)
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