LAUSD reforms favor insiders

The latest round of Los Angeles Unified's new Public School Choice plan would give an edge to internal, district-based teams that compete to run new schools, under a plan approved by the school board Tuesday.Connie Llanos in the Daily News

School Choice was designed to improve education through competition, by allowing outside groups and internal teams to bid on the management of new and under-performing schools.

But the motion approved unanimously Tuesday changes the rules of the program for its upcoming third round by allowing district-based plans to be submitted first, as long as they meet a series of conditions. Charter school operators complained it may lead to shutting many of them out of the reform program.