Wednesday, December 15, 2010

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Compton Trigger/Takeover: McKINLEY PARENTS ALLEGE INTIMIDATION, MICHELLE RHEE COMES TO TOWN

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Compton Trigger/Takeover: McKINLEY PARENTS ALLEGE INTIMIDATION, MICHELLE RHEE COMES TO TOWN

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.

McKinley Elementary

14431 Stanford Ave., Compton, 90220

  • Public school in the Compton Unified district.
  • Grades K-3
  • 517 students
  • 26 faculty membersMcKinley Elementary

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