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L.A. Unified settlement of lawsuit mushroomed into assault on long-held district practices
- 10-14-2010
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By Howard Blume and Jason Song/Los Angeles Times
A lawsuit filed this year against the Los Angeles Unified School District began with a narrow demand: Stop layoffs from decimating the staff — and harming students — at three of the city's worst-performing middle schools. But when the Board of Education announced a proposed settlement last week, what emerged was an ambitious assault on some of the district's longest-held practices. In the week since the announcement, interviews with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, school board members, district officials, attorneys and civic leaders have provided a detailed look at how the lawsuit became a vehicle to propel fundamental changes in the nation's second-largest school district. The interviews show that parties on both sides of the case came to see it as a way to sidestep obstruction bythe teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles, which they viewed as resistant to change. (more…)
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