The City of Angels lets teachers' unions keep control of its worst campuses.
Last week, the Los Angeles school board had the opportunity to fundamentally improve its lowest-performing public schools by transferring them to successful charter-school operators. Instead, the board handed the schools right back to the teachers' union that was responsible for their inferiority in the first place. Once again, just when major reform appeared to be right around the corner, the unions stepped in and crushed the opportunity for change.
