LAUSD tackling social promotions

Los Angeles Unified officials this month approved a plan to, once again, eliminate social promotion at the nation's second-largest school district. Connie Llanos in the Daily Nwes.

A decade after the district launched its first effort to end the controversial practice of passing academically unprepared children to the next grade, officials plan to work on a new approach that is expected to ensure students advance only if they meet academic goals.

Taking a collaborative approach, district officials will ask teachers, parents and administrators to help create a standards-based promotion policy for the 2012-13 school year.