Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Ramon Cortines recommended Thursday that the district keep control of a majority of schools that are part of a reform effort allowing outside groups to compete to run campuses.
Cortines' list of suggested operators for the 36 new and underperforming schools would allow outside groups to run 10 campuses. The rest would remain under LAUSD control.
His recommendations follow months of heated exchanges and accusations between the teachers, nonprofit groups and charters that bid to run schools under LAUSD's School Choice reform plan.
The Board of Education is set to decide on Feb. 23 based largely on Cortines' recommendations.
Some applicants hope that the elected officials will push a "bolder" agenda that would transfer more schools to control of outside groups.
"We feel the superintendent has not gone far enough down the road of true reform ... to ensure that all public school students are served by operators that have shown they can get the job done," said Allison Bajracharya, a policy director for the California Charter Schools Association.
Out of 36 schools, charter school operators applied to run 18 campuses. Cortines recommended they receive control of seven - including four that would share space with
