LAUSD hears parents gripes

Thousands of Los Angeles Unified parents and students packed the Los Angeles Convention Center Saturday for a parent summit, to get advice on everything from identifying attention-deficit disorder to improving their children's test scores. Rick Coca in the Daily News.

Parents and students were offered the chance to air some gripes, interact with school board members and hear directly from Superintendent David Brewer III during some of the more than 50 seminars and activities at the 12th annual Parent Summit.

During a workshop with school board members, Jenny Mangandi, a 13-year-old student at Thomas Starr King Middle School in Los Angeles, complained that substitute teachers are used too often in one of her classes and that her school is overcrowded.