Palisades Schools Get OK for Charter Status : Reform: Program at four campuses is an attempt to raise student achievement standards. It will be watched as a model of how school clusters work.
LA TimesTIMES EDUCATION WRITER The Los Angeles Board of Education on Monday gave the go-ahead to four Pacific Palisades schools to embark on a unique “charter school” experiment, freeing the campuses from cumbersome state and district rules that regulate classroom teaching. The 6-1 board approval of applications from Pacific Palisades High School and three of its feeder elementary schools marks the first time since state legislation was enacted in January that a cluster of schools has joined forces to attempt to improve student achievement. The Palisades charter designation culminated six months of intense planning among principals, teachers and parents and will be closely watched throughout the district as a model of how school clusters can work. With approval of the Palisades four, Los Angeles Unified now has seven charter schools--Vaughn Street Elementary in Pacoima; the Open School, a small Westside campus, and Edu-Train, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that teaches dropouts.
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