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LA Board of Education plans on privatizing over 250 LAUSD K-12 schools:
"President of United Teachers Los Angeles, A.J. Duffy has stated that he believes the LA city Board of Education school choice plan is privatizing public education. Duffy has expressed his discontent with the school choice plan and believes the bad performance of the over 250 schools is just an excuse to break up the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). In addition, Duffy supports his argument with a Stanford study released this past spring that concludes 30 percent of nationwide charter schools are doing worse than non-charter schools.
However, according to a state-sponsored evaluation of charter schools by a California based non-partisan group, Legislative Analyst, charter schools have raised academic achievement for students. Charter schools particularly serve to assist disadvantaged students, such as individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds or historically neglected races, such as Native Americans, who have a dropout rate of 31%."
"President of United Teachers Los Angeles, A.J. Duffy has stated that he believes the LA city Board of Education school choice plan is privatizing public education. Duffy has expressed his discontent with the school choice plan and believes the bad performance of the over 250 schools is just an excuse to break up the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). In addition, Duffy supports his argument with a Stanford study released this past spring that concludes 30 percent of nationwide charter schools are doing worse than non-charter schools.
However, according to a state-sponsored evaluation of charter schools by a California based non-partisan group, Legislative Analyst, charter schools have raised academic achievement for students. Charter schools particularly serve to assist disadvantaged students, such as individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds or historically neglected races, such as Native Americans, who have a dropout rate of 31%."