The LAUSD School Board has signaled its commitment to reform by allowing school operators -- traditional and public charter -- to compete to operate 50 new schools and more than 200 schools that have been consistently failing for at least five years, as measured by API scores.
The Manual of Kindergarten Practice, issued by the Education Bureau, provided prospective school operators with the necessary information regarding statutory requirements and recommendations for the operation of kindergartens.
Among some charter school operators, there is also frustration.
Another $44 million is earmarked for other charter school operators that cater primarily to Hispanic students.
The city's plan has generated cautious excitement among charter school operators.
But sometimes, that freedom allows school operators to get in over their heads.
In that sense, charter school operators and other education experts said the city's effort was unprecedented.
There are the more traditional and publicly celebrated programmatic initiatives, like financing charter school operators and early-college high schools.
Mr. Iqbal, like the other driving school operators, said he accepted people for lessons only if their papers looked legitimate.
School operators say the immigration service faces a backlog of up to a year in notifying them of arriving students.
In New York, Victory has outpaced bigger, nationally known school operators like Edison Schools and Advantage Schools.
