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Parents, teachers, students oppose Crenshaw High restructure plan - latimes.com

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Parents, teachers, students oppose Crenshaw High restructure plan



Parents, students and teachers plan to rally in front of Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters Tuesday in protest of a proposal to restructure low-performing Crenshaw High School.
The Board of Education is expected to vote on Supt. John Deasy's plan to close the school next summer and reopen it the following school year in the form of three magnet schools.
A couple dozen community members rallied at the school Monday afternoon against the plan, contending that they were not included in its development and have yet to be granted a meeting with Deasy to discuss it.
They called on the board to delay the vote and reconsider the plan.
Eunice Grigsby, a graduate of the school who has a son in the 11th grade and three children who graduated from Crenshaw, said that the community had been left in the dark until parents, teachers and students said they