48 apply to run schools

Los Angeles Unified officials received 48 bids by Wednesday's deadline from groups looking to run schools under the second round of the district's Public School Choice reform plan. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

The plan, approved by the school board in summer 2009, lets charter operators and nonprofits compete with teachers and principals from within the district to run new and under-performing schools.

It is intended to improve school performance by forcing educators both inside and outside the district to compete for the right to run a school.