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Carpenter Avenue Elementary a new charter school
- 06-16-2010
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By Connie Llanos/Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles Unified officials Tuesday unanimously approved converting Carpenter Avenue Elementary school, one of the San Fernando Valley's highest performing campuses, into a charter school. The Studio City school will operate as an LAUSD affiliated charter, which means that staff will still receive district employee benefits and remain union employees and the school will not have to lease its own space. The school must also enroll all of its students from its current district-approved attendance boundaries. "The parents, teachers and community members of Carpenter spoke very clearly that this is what they wanted for their school so I was happy to support them," board member Tamar Galatzan said. (more...)
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