…The other shoe drops: IN ADDITION TO THE TWELVE ‘FOCUS SCHOOLS’ THERE ARE TWENTY-FOUR NEW SCHOOLS ‘UP FOR GRABS’

FROM AN LAUSD POWERPOINT, comments by smf

…the legal basis and authority  for transferring operation of the 24 new  schools, which are not failing and indeed have no academic track record at all, to

• management and operation not contemplated in state law (while applicants may be Charter Management Organizations these are not charter schools) 
• and outside the purview,  control and oversight of the elected trustees of the District

is open to question and litigation.  The first legal question is “!s this what the voters and taxpayers had in mind?”

The only legal justification for this is the Public School Choice Resolution itself – which contemplates its own limits and tenuous legality in Resolved #13:

Resolved further, That the Superintendent will work with the Office of General Counsel to ensure compliance with state and federal laws and regulations, comprehensive labor agreements,the Modified Consent Decree and other court orders, and that innovation, reorganization and restructuring of schools must be accomplished in accordance with these mandates;