California Board of Education seeks probe of Compton charter campaign
The board will ask the state attorney general to examine charges of misconduct in a petition drive to convert McKinley Elementary into a charter school.
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The state Board of Education will ask the attorney general to investigate complaints of misconduct surrounding a parent petition drive to turn over a struggling Compton elementary school to a charter school operation, the board president said Wednesday.
The petition drive at McKinley Elementary School, the state's first test of a new law that empowers parents to make sweeping changes at low-performing schools, has been mired in charges and countercharges of deceit and intimidation since signatures, said to represent 62% of the school's
