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'Thin contracts' will be required for groups bidding to take over L.A. schools
- 05-11-2011
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Blog by Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times
L.A. school officials have approved amended rules for how groups will compete to take control of new and low-performing schools in the state’s largest school system, and the revisions already have raised objections from the teachers union. The most controversial new provision, passed at Tuesday's Board of Education meeting, requires teams of district teachers to use a so-called thin contract in their proposals. This thin contract would replace the much larger -- critics say cumbersome -- collective bargaining agreement with United Teachers Los Angeles. This was among the changes recommended by Supt. John Deasy regarding the process through which groups inside and outside the district can make bids for campuses. The two-year-old initiative, dubbed “public school choice,” is one of the nation’s most watched school-reform strategies. (more...)
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