LA school board approves school choice plan
Posted by administrator on 26th August and posted in School Board
The Los Angeles Board of Education voted Tuesday to adopt a controversial resolution that could turn a third of the schools in the nation’s second-largest school district over to private operators.
The proposal, which gives Superintendent Ramon Cortines 60 days to develop a plan, was approved 6-1 after a contentious four-hour public hearing and board debate.
Proposals will be accepted from private charter school operators, local communities and the mayor’s office for the operation of 50 new schools that will open over the next four years, as well as 200 existing schools that are chronic underperformers.
School board member Marguerite LaMotte cast the only dissenting vote.
“I haven’t seen any research-based study that says giving away schools improves academic achievement,” LaMotte said.
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