Roosevelt Parents Say No to Mayor
At 11:30 today, a group of LAUSD parents plan on putting on a press conference at Roosevelt High School to "publicly oppose Mayor Villaraigosa's impending takeover of their schools."
An email from the group, Roosevelt Says No, states that although "parents of children in LAUSD schools have expressed their deep desire to not be part of Mayor Villaraigosa's Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, however city hall staffers incessantly persist in lobbying parents at the sites."
The mayor, who will manage two families of schools--two low-performing high schools and their feeder elementary and middle schools--has said he will not go to schools that don't want his involvement.
"In East Los Angeles, parents are coming together to publicly state once and for all they do not want Villaraigosa's reform model in their public schools," states the press release.
It's unclear who the group represents and how many parents are involved in opposing the mayor's involvement. And Villaraigosa has not singled out Roosevelt publicly as a school he'd like to include in his family of schools.
The mayor and school district hope to announce the names of schools to be included in the groups by fall.