'Historic' parthnership for schools

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and L.A. Unified leaders Wednesday touted their "historic" partnership as the key to transform the city's most-challenged schools and the catalyst to reform the entire beleaguered school district. Naush Boghossian in the Daily News.

The product of months of negotiations between the mayor's education team and the school district, the plan calls for Villaraigosa to manage two families of schools under a five-year contract.

If the schools don't meet goals for test scores, graduation and dropout rates, they'll be forced out of the partnership.