PARENT TRIGGER GROUP RECOMMENDS LAUSD TAKES OVER FAILING LAUSD SCHOOL
●●smf: This article is a-little-more-than-somewhat misleading - sometimes the spin makes the reporters dizzy.The recommendation of the 24th St Parents Union is a “recommendation” – not the final parent vote. The LA Parent Union is an unholy owned subsidiary of ®eform Inc., the Broad/Gates/WalMart/Charter School Kool-Aid is dispensed by the hogshead at every meeting!
BY BEAU YARBROUGH | SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUN | HTTP://BIT.LY/ZDXA6F
4/04/2013 08:43:07 PM PDT :: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-based parent group that has won the right to remake their failing Los Angeles Unified school wants the district to run the school after it reopens its doors.The 24th Street Elementary School Parents Union is the third group to use California's parent trigger law, which allows groups that collect enough petitions to force dramatic changes on public schools.
On Thursday afternoon, the group recommended that petition signatories vote for a joint proposal put forth by LAUSD and charter school Crown Preparatory Academy.
Under the proposal, LAUSD would open a new pre-kindergarten program at 24th Street Elementary, and would restart the K-4 program in place at the school. Current LAUSD employees would be required to reapply for their jobs and the district has promised to bring in a "collaborative principal and staff."
Crown Prep, which would continue to operate independently on the 24th Street campus, as it has since 2010, would expand to admit the fifth
●●smf: This article is a-little-more-than-somewhat misleading - sometimes the spin makes the reporters dizzy.The recommendation of the 24th St Parents Union is a “recommendation” – not the final parent vote. The LA Parent Union is an unholy owned subsidiary of ®eform Inc., the Broad/Gates/WalMart/Charter School Kool-Aid is dispensed by the hogshead at every meeting!