Jolting the system

Los Angeles Unified may have opened its gates for independent operators to run up to a third of its campuses, but the key players - including the influential teachers union - do not anticipate a bitter power grab to take over public schools.Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

The controversial Schools Choice initiative prompted much talk of winners and losers leading up to the school board's near unanimous approval of the measure last week.

Charters and nonprofit groups celebrated the chance for more access to resources, while labor leaders said the plan would set the nation's second-largest school district on a path toward privatization.