By erasing the district's attendance boundaries, Los Angeles Unified School District may be able to breathe some life and restore the attrition of students back into their fold.
The more choice, the better. There will be a grand transportation nightmare, too be sure, but most parents are dedicated enough to pull every string and get their kids enrolled in a high quality school.
The competition that will ensue within the district will finally hold failing schools accountable. Better than the team of inspectors-general instituted by David Takofsky in 2006, better than the countless reforms which have nothing to do with improving the quality of student learning, and better than the chronic kvetching of school board members and parent liaisons in the district office, allowing parents and children to vote with their feet will force failing schools to access their hiring, their allocation of resources, and implement the real reforms needed to catch the attention and maintain the enrollment of their students.
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