Charters get more power

The State Board of Education approved a plan Thursday that gives independent charter schools statewide more control over how they educate their special-needs students. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

Under the plan, charters will no longer have to go through larger school districts like Los Angeles Unified to get their special-education funding, which will give the publicly funded and independently run campuses more control over how they run their special-ed programs.

LAUSD officials made an overnight trip to Sacramento in hopes of delaying the vote on the plan that they said would reduce services to local students with disabilities.