Four long years after Locke High School teachers signed petitions to convert their school (and three years into the Locke turnaround effort), charter operator Green Dot Public Schools is finally moving to expand its efforts on the turnaround front. This time around, however, it's not a teacher petition or even parent signatures that are triggering the process but rather an abbreviated district-level decision process. On Wednesday the district approved a plan for Green Dot and a second charter operator (Alliance for College Ready Public Schools) and Mayor Villaraigosa's Partnership for LA Schools to break Jordan up into three different schools. Read below for more details and links and commentary.
Teachers will have to reapply for their jobs (
Los Angeles Times). Less than half of the teachers are expected to
