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July 3, 2010

Charters, teachers vie to take over L.A. Unified schools

Howard Blume:

The district is inviting bidders to run poorly performing and new campuses with 35,000 students. More than 80 groups submitted letters of intent for new or low-achieving schools for fall 2011.

The nation's second-largest school system is once again inviting bidders to take over poorly performing and new campuses, in a school-control process that is, once again, pitting teachers and their union against independently operated charter schools, most of which are nonunion.

Teachers working for the Los Angeles Unified School District put in bids for every school. And charters are vying for all but one.

At stake is the education of more than 35,000 students who will attend those schools.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 3, 2010 4:23 AM
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