Challenges of LAUSD reform

The Los Angeles Unified District is just weeks away from launching its deepest reform effort to date - allowing nonprofits and other outsiders to run 36 new and underperforming schools. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

As the Nov. 15 deadline for the first phase of bidding approaches, targeted campuses are asking themselves a big question: Do we let others bid for us or do we put up a plan of our own to retain control?

Many educators anticipate publicly funded, but independently run, charter school operators to bid for a number of schools under the LAUSD's Schools Choice Plan. But teachers, administrators and community members at dozens of affected campuses see the plan as an opportunity to kick-start long-stalled innovation within the massive district.