Stricter rules for charters

The Los Angeles Unified school board voted Tuesday to approve a series of tougher standards for charter schools at a time when the district is embracing the publicly funded but independently run campuses more than ever. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

While charter school operators and advocates applaud LAUSD's recent embrace of their campuses, they criticized some of the new regulations, which they said create more bureaucracy for the alternative schools.

The new rules include increasing building safety standards to bring charters in line with district-operated schools. Also, members of charter school boards will now be required to fill out conflict-of-interest forms, similar to those filed by elected school board members.