Superintendent David Brewer's reform proposal--targeting 34 low-performing schools--which was scheduled to be unveiled today, has hit yet another bump. After weeks of saying he would present his plan to the school board on Nov. 20, we got word late yesterday that the committee of the whole meeting had been canceled. Word is that Brewer is still working on the plan, making changes, and a ninth draft is floating around. The union leadership has made it clear that they will do everything in their power to block the proposal (at least the eighth and final version that was around last week). The earliest Brewer will present to the board now is Dec. 4, with a vote on Dec. 11.
The Times' Evelyn Larrubia wrote today about LAUSD's legal victory over politically-connected developer Richard Meruelo in a Glassell Park eminent domain case.
L.A. Unified wins eminent domain claim
Judge approves district officials' right to take Glassell Park property for a new high school. How much they'll have to pay for it has yet to be determined.
The Los Angeles Unified School District won the first round Monday in a legal battle with developer Richard Meruelo over the fate of a former rail yard.
Superior Court Judge Soussan Bruguera ruled that the district had a right to take the 23-acre Glassell Park property from Meruelo through eminent domain. The decision frees the district to build a 2,300-student high school there without fear of losing the property later.
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