Advertisement
From The Los Angeles Times: A tug of war has erupted over a new downtown arts high school in Los Angeles. Some of the school's biggest supporters say they have given up on the Los Angeles Unified School District and wanted the $242-million campus turned over to a charter school organization. The tension had been building for months, fueled in part by the district's plan to reserve most of the school's seats for students from the surrounding neighborhood rather than open it up to the most talented students districtwide. It bubbled over after two principals from the East Coast turned down offers to take charge, leaving the school leaderless less than six months before it opens.
