Special care for neediest schools

Aiming to overhaul Los Angeles Unified's lowest-performing schools, Superintendent David Brewer III unveiled a plan Tuesday to essentially carve out a separate, targeted district for 44 of the neediest schools.Naush Boghossian in the Daily News.

Brewer's senior staff and local superintendents still are developing details, but the new district would be made up of middle and high schools - including several in the San Fernando Valley - and would have its own rules of governance, separate curriculum and instructional planning.

Brewer hopes to roll out the district next fall and said schools in the group would be candidates for drastic reforms such as all-boys academies and neighborhood literacy centers for parents.