Compton Trigger/Takeover: McKINLEY PARENTS ALLEGE INTIMIDATION, MICHELLE RHEE COMES TO TOWN
SANDRA POINDEXTER, BEN WELSH LOS ANGELES TIMES | HTTP://LAT.MS/I8COB7
December 14, 2010 | 7:39 pm | Several parents who are working to have a charter company take over a low-performing Compton elementary school alleged Tuesday that they and their children are being threatened and intimidated by teachers and other school personnel.
14431 Stanford Ave., Compton, 90220
Source: California Department of Education |
The allegations come in the wake of an effort organized by the nonprofit reform group Parent Revolution to force the Compton Unified School District to bring in a charter operator to run McKinley Elementary School, which has struggled for years to raise student test scores. Charters are independently run, publicly financed schools that are mostly non-unionized. Last week, supporters presented the district with a petition signed by 62% of McKinley parents in the first use of |
