Mayor to get his schools

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to announce as early as Wednesday plans for a major partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District that would give him control over two groups of low-performing schools. Naush Boghossian in the Daily News.

The plan would include significant support from teachers and communities in order to deflect opposition from the teachers union, and would give each school in the group greater local control.

The partnership, details of which have not been officially released, falls short of Villaraigosa's initial goals of having a key role in running the nation's second-largest school district with direct control of three clusters of schools.