Tough challenge for LAUSD reform bid

Superintendent Ramon Cortines thanked more than 1,000 Los Angeles Unified administrators Wednesday for their hard work during a tough period but asked them to embrace reform as they look forward to a new year that could bring even tougher challenges.Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

"I could ask you to do more with less," Cortines said. "But I'm not going to do that ... I want you to do things differently."

Cortines gathered with principals, assistant principals and local district superintendents just hours after the Los Angeles School Board approved a plan allowing charter school operators and other outside groups to compete for 50 newly built schools in the district and more than 200 chronically underachieving campuses.