COMMUNITY TEAM GETS NOD FROM SCHOOLS CHIEF TO RUN NEW SCHOOL: A team of local administrators and teachers who hope to run Echo Park's new middle school got another vote of confidence Thursday--a recommendation from LAUSD superintendent Ramon Cortines

By Anthea Raymond |Echo Park Patch |http://bit.ly/fvTMlb

 

This sign was one of several outside Rosemont in support of the Local District 4 Echo Park Community Partners Design Team, led by several former LAUSD teachers.  Credit Anthea Raymond

10 March 2011 -Los Angeles Unified Schools District superintendent Ramon Cortines has weighed in on who should manage the new middle school, CRES #14, set to open in Echo Park this fall.

The superintendent released a report on Thursday saying he recommended "with reservations" a team of teachers and administrators calling themselves Local District 4/Echo Park Community to oversee curriculum and management of the nearly $69 million dollar facility.

The group is competing with Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, an experienced charter operator with a strong record of success.

The LAUSD board of trustees, who has the final vote, is set to take up the matter Tuesday at its next meeting.

The community team recently won by a decisive margin in a nonbinding election held in January.

In his report Thursday, Cortines also recommended who should run the five mini-schools planned for a new Glassell Park high school campus that some Echo Park children may attend.