L.A. teachers union among groups seeking answers on running 13 schools
February 3, 2011 | 3:07 pm
Several groups, including the Los Angeles public schools teachers union, are expressing concern that the L.A. Unified School District has postponed a decision on who will run three low-performing schools and 10 new campuses.
The Board of Education was originally supposed to decide in mid-February, but the nation’s second-largest school system announced this week that it has pushed back the deadline a month.
Groups competing to run the schools include local school district administrators, teams of district teachers and charter schools, which are independently run and usually nonunion.
Because of the delay, school board members will not have to vote on who gets to run the
